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Fajer Shamsaldeen; Jue Wang; Soyeon Ahn – Language Testing in Asia, 2024
The use of college entrance exams for facilitating admission decisions become controversial, and the central argument is around the fairness of test scores. The Kuwait University English Aptitude Test (KUEAT) is a high-stakes test, but very few studies have examined the psychometric quality of the scores for this national-level assessment. This…
Descriptors: Test Bias, High Stakes Tests, College Entrance Examinations, Foreign Countries
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Rezai, Afsheen; Namaziandost, Ehsan; Miri, Mowla; Kumar, Tribhuwan – Language Testing in Asia, 2022
The literature indicates that the effects of sources of demographic biases on fairness in classroom assessment (CA) are under-researched in the Iranian higher education context. Hence, this study aims to explore the Iranian university teachers' perceptions of the effects of demographic biases (e.g., gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic (SES)) on…
Descriptors: Culture Fair Tests, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Student Characteristics
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Akhavan Masoumi, Ghazal; Sadeghi, Karim – Language Testing in Asia, 2020
This study aimed to examine the effect of test format on test performance by comparing Multiple Choice (MC) and Constructed Response (CR) vocabulary tests in an EFL setting. Also, this paper investigated the function of gender in MC and CR vocabulary measures. To this end, five 20-item stem-equivalent vocabulary tests (CR, and 3-, 4-, 5-, and…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Test Items, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning