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Construct Validity of the Nepalese School Leaving English Reading Test
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Dawadi, Saraswati; Shrestha, Prithvi N. – Educational Assessment, 2018
There has been a steady interest in investigating the validity of language tests in the last decades. Despite numerous studies on construct validity in language testing, there are not many studies examining the construct validity of a reading test. This paper reports on a study that explored the construct validity of the English reading test in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Construct Validity, Reading Tests, English (Second Language)
Standards as a Tool for Teaching and Assessing Cross-Curricular Writing
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Evensen, Lars Sigfred; Berge, Kjell Lars; Thygesen, Ragnar; Matre, Synnove; Solheim, Randi – Curriculum Journal, 2016
The Berge et al. article in this volume presents the functional construct of writing that underlies summative and formative assessment of writing as a key competency in Norway. A functional construct implies that specific acts of writing and their purposes constrain what is a relevant selection among the semiotic resources that writing generally…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Standards, Writing Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Using a Text-Based Verbal Protocol to Elicit Secondary English Teachers' Perspectives on New Literacies
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Lewis, Elizabeth C.; Chandler-Olcott, Kelly – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2012
This article reports on the use of a text-based verbal protocol (Afflerbach, 2000) situated within individual interviews to elicit secondary English teachers' perspectives on new literacies (Albers & Harste, 2007; Coiro, Knobel, Lankshear, & Leu, 2008). Ranging significantly in their teaching experience and comfort with new media and…
Descriptors: English Departments, English Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Teaching Experience
Speaking in Parables: The Responses of Students to a Bible-Based Ethos in a Christian City Technology College
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Green, Elizabeth H. – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2009
This paper discusses the engagement of Year 10 students with the Bible-based ethos of their City Technology College by describing and analysing their engagement with tutor prayers. It concludes that students are impacted by some of the key beliefs which underpin the ethos, conceptualised as a faith habitus. In particular they privilege being…
Descriptors: Biblical Literature, Beliefs, Tutors, Learner Engagement
Investigation of a Pattern between Students' Engagement in Argumentation and Their Science Content Knowledge: A Case Study
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Eskin, Handan; Ogan-Bekiroglu, Feral – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2009
The aim of this study was, first, to investigate any pattern between students' quantitative contribution to argumentation and their science understanding, and second, to analyze any relationship between students' qualitative contribution to argumentation and their scientific knowledge. Participants of the study were four tenth-grade students. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Persuasive Discourse, Grade 10, Physics
Testing Historical Knowledge: Standards, Multiple-Choice Questions and Student Reasoning
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Reich, Gabriel A. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2009
This article explores the reasoning employed by high school students to answer a set of multiple-choice history questions. The questions come from New York State's Global History and Geography Regents exam. The Regents exams, together with a particularly well-regarded and ambitious set of content standards, are the cornerstone of the state's…
Descriptors: Test Items, Discipline, Protocol Analysis, State Standards