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Examining the Predictive Validity of a Screening Test for Court Interpreters

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Stansfield, Charles W.; Hewitt, William E. – Language Testing, 2005

The United States Court Interpreters Act (US Congress, 1978) requires that interpreters in US federal courts be certified through a criterion-referenced performance test. The Federal Court Interpreter Certification Examination (FCICE) is a two-phase certification battery for federal court interpreters. Phase I is a multiple-choice Written…

Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Certification, Screening Tests, Predictive Validity

Do Visual Chunks and Planning Impact Performance on the Graph Description Task in the SPEAK Exam?

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Xi, Xiaoming – Language Testing, 2005

This study examines how task characteristics (the number of visual chunks and the amount of planning time) and test-taker characteristics (graph familiarity) influence the perceptual and cognitive processes involved in graph comprehension, the strategies used in describing graphs, and the scores obtained on the graph description task in a…

Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Familiarity, Graphs, Cognitive Processes