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Kyle, Kristopher; Eguchi, Masaki; Choe, Ann Tai; LaFlair, Geoff – Language Testing, 2022
In the realm of language proficiency assessments, the domain description inference and the extrapolation inference are key components of a validity argument. Biber et al.'s description of the lexicogrammatical features of the spoken and written registers in the T2K-SWAL corpus has served as support for the TOEFL iBT test's domain description and…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Written Language, Speech Communication, Inferences

Jennings, Martha; Fox, Janna; Shohamy, Elana; Graves, Barbara – Language Testing, 1999
Investigates potential presence of a topic effect for the Canadian Academic English Language (CAEL) Assessment using the mechanism of choice. Sought to determine whether test-takers given a choice of topic perform significantly differently from test-takers not given a choice. English-as-a-Second-Language university applicants were assigned one of…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Language Tests

Blais, Jean-Guy; Laurier, Michel D. – Language Testing, 1995
Discusses the purpose of a French-as-a-Second-Language (FSL) placement test designed for students enrolling in FSL at the postsecondary level. The test measures proficiency level in French and consists of three parts: comprehension of a short paragraph, selection of the appropriate statement in a situation, and a fill-in-the-gap part. (JL)
Descriptors: French, Higher Education, Language Proficiency, Language Tests

Byrnes, Heidi – Language Testing, 2002
Explores the role of task and task-based assessment in a collegiate foreign language department that shifted its entire undergraduate curriculum from a form-based normative approach to a language-use and language-meaning orientation for instruction. Examines how demands for specificity that characterize task-based assessment contributed…
Descriptors: Departments, Evaluation Methods, German, Higher Education

Hamp-Lyons, Liz – Language Testing, 1997
Links the theory of washback with the broader concept of impact in educational measurement and to the recent debate on construct validity associated with Messick. Notes that for many years it was asserted that language tests negatively impacted teaching and learning, an impact known as washback. (25 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Ethics, Higher Education, Language Tests, Measurement Techniques

Patri, Mrudula – Language Testing, 2002
Investigates agreement among teacher-, self-, and peer-assessments of students in the presence of peer feedback. This is done in the context of oral presentation skills of first year undergraduate students of ethnic Chinese background. Findings how that when assessment criteria are firmly set, peer feedback enables students to judge the…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Language Tests, Oral Language

Norris, John M.; Brown, James D.; Hudson, Thom D.; Bonk, William – Language Testing, 2002
Summarizes findings from investigations into the development and use of a prototype English language task-based performance test. Data included performances by 90 examinees in 13 complex and skill-integrative tasks. Findings indicated that the task-based test could inform intended inferences about examinees' abilities to accomplish specific tasks…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Language Tests

Sasaki, Miyuki – Language Testing, 2000
Investigates how schemata activated by culturally familiar words might have influenced students' cloze test-taking processes. Subjects were Japanese English-as-a-foreign-language students. Results demonstrate that students who read culturally familiar cloze texts tried to solve more items and generally understood the text better, which resulted in…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, College Students, Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language)

Jensen, Christine; Hansen, Christa – Language Testing, 1995
This study looked at whether prior learning of a lecture topic enhanced performance on the lecture subtests of a content-based listening test. Data was analyzed from 11 lecture subtests from the Test of Listening for Academic Purposes. (JL)
Descriptors: College Students, English for Academic Purposes, Higher Education, Language Tests

Bonk, William J.; Ockey, Gary J. – Language Testing, 2003
FACETS many-facet Rasch analysis software was utilized to look at two consecutive administrations of a large-scale second language oral assessment in the form of a peer group discussion task with Japanese English-major university students. Results are discussed. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Software, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Higher Education

Brown, James Dean – Language Testing, 1988
The reliability and validity of a cloze procedure used as an English-as-a-second-language (ESL) test in China were improved by applying traditional item analysis and selection techniques. The 'best' test items were chosen on the basis of item facility and discrimination indices, and were administered as a 'tailored cloze.' 29 references listed.…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Cloze Procedure, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries

Hale, Gordon A.; Courtney, Rosalea – Language Testing, 1994
Examined the effects of taking notes during a listening comprehension test containing short monologues. A multiple-choice questionnaire surveyed student reaction to the opportunity. Allowing students to take notes had little effect on their performance, and urging them to do so significantly impaired it. (16 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Language Tests

Bachman, Lyle F. – Language Testing, 1995
Discusses the development of a foreign language (Spanish) test battery that was designed for two purposes: to place students in study-abroad programs appropriate to their language ability and to provide information on designing useful instruction for prospective study-abroad students. Results are presented into task and rater variability in the…
Descriptors: College Students, Evaluators, Grammar, Higher Education

Spence-Brown, Robyn – Language Testing, 2001
Explores theoretical and practical issues surrounding authenticity in course-based assessment, drawing on data from a university-level Japanese language course in Australia. Examines a teaching and assessment activity based around interviewing native speakers outside the classroom, which was designed to optimize authenticity. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Students, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Higher Education

Storey, Peter – Language Testing, 1997
Examines the processes employed by subjects in Hong Kong engaged in an English-as-a-Second-Language discourse cloze test. Think-aloud protocols obtained from test-takers indicate the reasoning and strategies employed in selecting items to complete gaps in the cloze passage. Findings reveal the test-taking behavior of the subjects and presents a…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Discourse Analysis
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