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Suzumura, Nana – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2022
The present study is part of a larger mixed methods project that investigated the speaking section of the Advanced Placement (AP) Japanese Language and Culture Exam. It investigated assumptions for the evaluation inference through a content analysis of test taker responses. Results of the content analysis were integrated with those of a many-facet…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Test Wiseness, Advanced Placement, Computer Assisted Testing
He, Wei – NWEA, 2022
To ensure that student academic growth in a subject area is accurately captured, it is imperative that the underlying scale remains stable over time. As item parameter stability constitutes one of the factors that affects scale stability, NWEA® periodically conducts studies to check for the stability of the item parameter estimates for MAP®…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Test Items, Test Reliability, Academic Achievement
Rafatbakhsh, Elaheh; Ahmadi, Alireza; Moloodi, Amirsaeid; Mehrpour, Saeed – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2021
Test development is a crucial, yet difficult and time-consuming part of any educational system, and the task often falls all on teachers. Automatic item generation systems have recently drawn attention as they can reduce this burden and make test development more convenient. Such systems have been developed to generate items for vocabulary,…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Items, Computer Assisted Testing, Multiple Choice Tests
Huang, Heng-Tsung Danny; Hung, Shao-Ting Alan; Chao, Hsiu-Yi; Chen, Jyun-Hong; Lin, Tsui-Peng; Shih, Ching-Lin – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2022
Prompted by Taiwanese university students' increasing demand for English proficiency assessment, the absence of a test designed specifically for this demographic subgroup, and the lack of a localized and freely-accessible proficiency measure, this project set out to develop and validate a computerized adaptive English proficiency testing (E-CAT)…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Chai, Jun Ho; Lo, Chang Huan; Mayor, Julien – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: This study introduces a framework to produce very short versions of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs) by combining the Bayesian-inspired approach introduced by Mayor and Mani (2019) with an item response theory-based computerized adaptive testing that adapts to the ability of each child, in line with…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Item Response Theory, Measures (Individuals), Language Skills
Sahin, Murat Dogan; Gelbal, Selahattin – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2020
The purpose of this study was to conduct a real-time multidimensional computerized adaptive test (MCAT) using data from a previous paper-pencil test (PPT) regarding the grammar and vocabulary dimensions of an end-of-term proficiency exam conducted on students in a preparatory class at a university. An item pool was established through four…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Language Tests, Language Proficiency
Min, Shangchao; Bishop, Kyoungwon; Gary Cook, Howard – Language Testing, 2022
This study explored the interplay between content knowledge and reading ability in a large-scale multistage adaptive English for academic purposes (EAP) reading assessment at a range of ability levels across 1-12 graders. The datasets for this study were item-level responses to the reading tests of ACCESS for ELLs Online 2.0. A sample of 10,000…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, English Language Learners, Correlation, Reading Ability
Kim, Ahyoung Alicia; Tywoniw, Rurik L.; Chapman, Mark – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2022
Technology-enhanced items (TEIs) are innovative, computer-delivered test items that allow test takers to better interact with the test environment compared to traditional multiple-choice items (MCIs). The interactive nature of TEIs offer improved construct coverage compared with MCIs but little research exists regarding students' performance on…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Test Items, Computer Assisted Testing, English (Second Language)
Goodwin, Amanda; Petscher, Yaacov; Tock, Jamie – Journal of Research in Reading, 2021
Background: Middle school students use the information conveyed by morphemes (i.e., units of meaning such as prefixes, root words and suffixes) in different ways to support their literacy endeavours, suggesting the likelihood that morphological knowledge is multidimensional. This has important implications for assessment. Methods: The current…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Morphology (Languages), Metalinguistics, Student Evaluation
Goodwin, Amanda P.; Petscher, Yaacov; Tock, Jamie – Grantee Submission, 2021
Background: Middle school students use the information conveyed by morphemes (i.e., units of meaning such as prefixes, root words and suffixes) in different ways to support their literacy endeavours, suggesting the likelihood that morphological knowledge is multidimensional. This has important implications for assessment. Methods: The current…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Morphemes, Middle School Students, Knowledge Level
Kaya, Elif; O'Grady, Stefan; Kalender, Ilker – Language Testing, 2022
Language proficiency testing serves an important function of classifying examinees into different categories of ability. However, misclassification is to some extent inevitable and may have important consequences for stakeholders. Recent research suggests that classification efficacy may be enhanced substantially using computerized adaptive…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Test Items, Language Tests, Classification
Makransky, Guido; Dale, Philip S.; Havmose, Philip; Bleses, Dorthe – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2016
Purpose: This study investigated the feasibility and potential validity of an item response theory (IRT)-based computerized adaptive testing (CAT) version of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory: Words & Sentences (CDI:WS; Fenson et al., 2007) vocabulary checklist, with the objective of reducing length while maintaining…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Computer Assisted Testing, Adaptive Testing, Language Tests
Lee, Senyung; Shin, Sun-Young – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2021
Multiple test tasks are available for assessing L2 collocation knowledge. However, few studies have investigated the characteristics of a variety of recognition and recall tasks of collocation simultaneously, and most research on L2 collocations has focused on verb-noun and adjective-noun collocations. This study investigates (1) the relative…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Language Tests, Recall (Psychology)
Wolf, Mikyung Kim; Guzman-Orth, Danielle; Lopez, Alexis; Castellano, Katherine; Himelfarb, Igor; Tsutagawa, Fred S. – Educational Assessment, 2016
This article investigates ways to improve the assessment of English learner students' English language proficiency given the current movement of creating next-generation English language proficiency assessments in the Common Core era. In particular, this article discusses the integration of scaffolding strategies, which are prevalently utilized as…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Language Tests, Language Proficiency
Wei, Wei; Zheng, Ying – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2017
This research provided a comprehensive evaluation and validation of the listening section of a newly introduced computerised test, Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE Academic). PTE Academic contains 11 item types assessing academic listening skills either alone or in combination with other skills. First, task analysis helped identify skills…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Language Tests, Construct Validity