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Direct linkFaulkner-Bond, Molly; Wolf, Mikyung Kim; Wells, Craig S.; Sireci, Stephen G. – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2018
In this study we investigated the internal factor structure of a large-scale K--12 assessment of English language proficiency (ELP) using samples of fourth- and eighth-grade English learners (ELs) in one state. While U.S. schools are mandated to measure students' ELP in four language domains (listening, reading, speaking, and writing), some ELP…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Language Tests, Language Proficiency, Grade 4
Zhang, Limei; Goh, Christine C. M.; Kunnan, Antony John – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2014
This study investigates the relationships between test takers' metacognitive and cognitive strategy use through a questionnaire and their test performance on an English as a Foreign Language reading test. A total of 593 Chinese college test takers responded to a 38-item metacognitive and cognitive strategy questionnaire and a 50-item reading test.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Reading Tests, Metacognition
He, Lianzhen; Min, Shangchao – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2017
The first aim of this study was to develop a computer adaptive EFL test (CALT) that assesses test takers' listening and reading proficiency in English with dichotomous items and polytomous testlets. We reported in detail on the development of the CALT, including item banking, determination of suitable item response theory (IRT) models for item…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Adaptive Testing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Sawaki, Yasuyo; Quinlan, Thomas; Lee, Yong-Won – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2013
The present study examined the factor structures across features of 446 examinees' responses to a writing task that integrates reading and listening modalities as well as reading and listening comprehension items of the TOEFL iBT[R] (Internet-based test). Both human and automated scores obtained for the integrated essays were utilized. Based on a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Essay Tests, Factor Structure
Farnsworth, Timothy L. – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2013
This study examined the construct validity of the TOEFL iBT Speaking subsection for the purposes of international teaching assistant (ITA) certification, a purpose for which it was not specifically designed. The factor structure of the new TOEFL was compared with that of another language performance test in use at a major American research…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Llosa, Lorena – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2012
Assessing and monitoring student progress is becoming increasingly important in classrooms and for accountability purposes. Yet, in order to interpret changes in assessment results from one year to the next as reflecting differences in underlying ability rather than as variations in the measurement, the assessments used should be measuring the…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Longitudinal Studies
