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Yuichiro Yokouchi – Language Testing in Asia, 2025
The performance decision tree (PDT; Fulcher et al., 2011) is a rubric style that is applicable to performance assessment, with origins in Upshur and Turner's (1995) empirically derived binary-choice, boundary-definition (EBB) scale. It is easier for raters to assess performance by evaluating multiple binary-choice descriptors. Additionally,…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Khau, Anh Hoang; Huynh, Van Thuy Mai – Language Testing in Asia, 2022
This study attempts to investigate how four groups of participants at Tra Vinh University perceive oral fluency. This study is conducted in the hope to obtain more perceptions of oral fluency so future rubrics can be developed based on such perceptions. The study used a set of items stating what oral fluency should be like, which was developed…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Fluency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Yamanishi, Hiroyuki; Ono, Masumi; Hijikata, Yuko – Language Testing in Asia, 2019
Background: In our research project, we have developed a scoring rubric for a second language (L2) summary writing for English as a foreign language (EFL) students in Japanese universities. This study aimed to examine the applicability of our five-dimensional rubric, which features both analytic and holistic assessments, to classrooms in the EFL…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Language Skills, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Firoozi, Tahereh; Razavipour, Kioumars; Ahmadi, Alireza – Language Testing in Asia, 2019
Teachers' assessment literacy has recently captured the attention of scholars across various educational contexts. The literature has it that there is a gap between teachers' assessment practices and national assessment policies. The present study investigated the assessment needs of Iranian EFL teachers in the wake of the new assessment reform,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evaluation Methods, Teacher Competencies, Language Teachers
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Jeong, Heejeong – Language Testing in Asia, 2015
Background: For language teachers, using rubrics has become the norm in assessing performance-based work. When using rubrics, one question stakeholders have is to what extent teachers are true to the rubrics. For classroom teachers, the correct use of rubrics is crucial. Rater training and rater calibration are not commonly offered to…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction