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The Assessment of Early Pragmatic Development: A Study of the Reliability and Validity of the Language Use Inventory-Italian
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Longobardi, Emiddia; Lonigro, Antonia; Laghi, Fiorenzo; O'Neill, Daniela K. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: Pragmatics is receiving much attention in both the fields of developmental and clinical psychology; however, there is a dearth of instruments to assess pragmatic abilities specifically among young toddler-age children. The aim of the current study was to test the psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Language Use Inventory…
Descriptors: Italian, Pragmatics, Toddlers, Psychometrics
The Predictive Validity of Interim Assessment Scores Based on the Full-Information Bifactor Model for the Prediction of End-of-Grade Test Performance
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Immekus, Jason C.; Atitya, Ben – Educational Assessment, 2016
Interim tests are a central component of district-wide assessment systems, yet their technical quality to guide decisions (e.g., instructional) has been repeatedly questioned. In response, the study purpose was to investigate the validity of a series of English Language Arts (ELA) interim assessments in terms of dimensionality and prediction of…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Scores, Formative Evaluation, Language Tests
The Adequacy of the B2 Level as University Entrance Requirement
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Carlsen, Cecilie Hamnes – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2018
This article reports on a study of foreign students' success in higher education in Norway and focuses specifically on the relation between academic success and students' proficiency level of Norwegian as measured by a CEFR-based university entrance test. This study is distinguished from prior studies because it sets out to investigate not only…
Descriptors: Language Tests, College Entrance Examinations, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
Crossvalidation of Item Response Curve Models Using TOEFL Data.
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Boldt, Robert F. – Language Testing, 1992
The assumption called PIRC (proportional item response curve) was tested in which PIRC was used to predict item scores of selected examinees on selected items. Findings show approximate accuracies of prediction for PIRC, the three-parameter logist model, and a modified Rasch model. (12 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Factor Analysis, Item Response Theory
Nature et Validite du Test de Classement de l'Institut de Langues Secondes (Nature and Validity of the Placement Test of the Second Language Institute).
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Weinberg, Alysse – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1995
Evaluates the validity of the test used to place students in the comprehension-based courses offered by the Second Language Institute of the University of Ottawa. The test is described in the context of the target student population and the comprehension-based courses. Different factors of evaluating the concurrent and predictive validity were…
Descriptors: College Students, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries, French
To Test or Not To Test, That Is the Question.
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Tong, Keith; And Others – Hongkong Papers in Linguistics and Language Teaching, 1991
A study investigated the content and predictive validity of Hong Kong's new Use of English Examination (UEE), introduced by the Hong Kong Examinations Authority in 1989. The study set out to discover whether the examination was reliable for determining students' language needs on entering higher education, and whether institutions' existing…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Content Validity, English (Second Language), Factor Analysis