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Tia M. Fechter; Heeyeon Yoon – Language Testing, 2024
This study evaluated the efficacy of two proposed methods in an operational standard-setting study conducted for a high-stakes language proficiency test of the U.S. government. The goal was to seek low-cost modifications to the existing Yes/No Angoff method to increase the validity and reliability of the recommended cut scores using a convergent…
Descriptors: Standard Setting, Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Evaluation Methods
Mohammed, Aisha; Dawood, Abdul Kareem Shareef; Alghazali, Tawfeeq; Kadhim, Qasim Khlaif; Sabti, Ahmed Abdulateef; Sabit, Shaker Holh – International Journal of Language Testing, 2023
Cognitive diagnostic models (CDMs) have received much interest within the field of language testing over the last decade due to their great potential to provide diagnostic feedback to all stakeholders and ultimately improve language teaching and learning. A large number of studies have demonstrated the application of CDMs on advanced large-scale…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Language Tests, English (Second Language)
James Dean Brown; Ali Panahi; Hassan Mohebbi – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2023
Panahi and Mohebbi review James Dean Brown's 50-years of research in language testing, curriculum development and research statistics with reference to an impressionistic framework for analysis containing two components with their subcomponents: Annotations (i.e., briefing and implications) and main concepts and themes (i.e., testing and teaching…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Tests, Curriculum Development
Abdullah Al Fraidan – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2025
This study explores vocabulary assessment practices in Saudi Arabia's hybrid EFL ecosystem, leveraging platforms like Blackboard and Google Forms. The focus is on identifying prevalent test formats and evaluating their alignment with modern pedagogical goals. To classify vocabulary assessment formats in hybridized EFL contexts and recommend the…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Goodrich, J. Marc; Fitton, Lisa; Chan, Jessica; Davis, C. Jamie – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2023
Multilingual children represent a rapidly growing population of students in U.S. schools. However, identification of language and learning disabilities for students from different linguistic backgrounds is complex, leading to frequent misidentification of multilingual learners for special education. This article provides guidance on how special…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Screening Tests, Multilingualism, Learning Disabilities
Lauren Prather; Nancy Creaghead; Jennifer Vannest; Lisa Hunter; Amy Hobek; Tamika Odum; Mekibib Altaye; Juanita Lackey – Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2025
Purpose: The lack of appropriate assessments affects populations presumed to be most at risk for speech and language concerns, one of them being children with a history of preterm birth. This study aims to examine whether cultural bias is present in two currently available language tests for Black children under 3 years of age: the Communication…
Descriptors: African American Children, Premature Infants, Evaluation Methods, Language Tests
Han, Chao – Language Testing, 2022
Over the past decade, testing and assessing spoken-language interpreting has garnered an increasing amount of attention from stakeholders in interpreter education, professional certification, and interpreting research. This is because in these fields assessment results provide a critical evidential basis for high-stakes decisions, such as the…
Descriptors: Translation, Language Tests, Testing, Evaluation Methods
Francois, Isabelle; Lapka, Stefanie; Berstein Ratner, Nan; Mills, Monique T. – EBP Briefs (Evidence-based Practice Briefs), 2023
Clinical Question: For young AAE speakers (P), how useful is the Developmental Sentence Scoring (DSS) compared with Index of Productive Syntax (IPSyn) in identifying developmental language disorder (DLD) in the presence of African American English (AAE)? Method: Structured Review. Study Sources: PsycInfo®, Education Source, Education Resources…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Language Impairments, Developmental Delays, Syntax
Jie Qin; Dilin Liu – Applied Linguistics, 2025
In response to calls for an assessment tool that provides a separate performance dimension from the linguistic quality-oriented measures of complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) and guided by systemic functional linguistic (SFL) theories, this study introduces a set of fine-grained objective measures of communication/content/function…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Tests, Linguistic Theory
Nicole Marx; Wolfgang Mann – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
Language assessment is a central aspect not only of language education in the general population, but also amongst heterogeneous, low-incidence populations. One such population are immigrant deaf and hard-of-hearing learners (IDML) who are bimodal-multilingual and whose languages development often includes the spoken, written, and/or signed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, German, Sign Language, Immigrants
Chengyuan Yu; Wandong Xu – Language Testing in Asia, 2024
Language assessment literacy has emerged as an important area of research within the field of language testing and assessment, garnering increasing scholarly attention. However, the existing literature on language assessment literacy primarily focuses on teachers and administrators, while students, who sit at the heart of any assessment, are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Video Technology, Evaluation Methods, Web Sites
Tomkowicz, Joanna; Kim, Dong-In; Wan, Ping – Online Submission, 2022
In this study we evaluated the stability of item parameters and student scores, using the pre-equated (pre-pandemic) parameters from Spring 2019 and post-equated (post-pandemic) parameters from Spring 2021 in two calibration and equating designs related to item parameter treatment: re-estimating all anchor parameters (Design 1) and holding the…
Descriptors: Equated Scores, Test Items, Evaluation Methods, Pandemics
Anani Sarab, Mohammad Reza; Rahmani, Simindokht – International Journal of Language Testing, 2023
Language testing and assessment have grown in popularity and gained significance in the last few decades, and there is a rising need for assessment literate stakeholders in the field of language education. As teachers play a major role in assessing students, there is a need to make sure they have the right level of assessment knowledge and skills…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Literacy, Second Language Learning, Factor Analysis
Huiying Cai; Xun Yan – Language Testing, 2024
Rater comments tend to be qualitatively analyzed to indicate raters' application of rating scales. This study applied natural language processing (NLP) techniques to quantify meaningful, behavioral information from a corpus of rater comments and triangulated that information with a many-facet Rasch measurement (MFRM) analysis of rater scores. The…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, Item Response Theory, Rating Scales, Writing Evaluation
Jamie L. Schissel – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2025
Drawing from humanizing pedagogies (Bartolome, 1994; del Carmen Salazar; Freire & Ramos, 1993) and humanizing research (Paris & Winn, 2013), in this article I propose an approach to "humanizing assessment" that begins with the position that inclusive and equitable educational opportunities and assessment practices that meet the…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Decolonization, Humanism, Evaluation Methods