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Wind, Stefanie A.; Peterson, Meghan E. – Language Testing, 2018
The use of assessments that require rater judgment (i.e., rater-mediated assessments) has become increasingly popular in high-stakes language assessments worldwide. Using a systematic literature review, the purpose of this study is to identify and explore the dominant methods for evaluating rating quality within the context of research on…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Evaluators, Evaluation Methods, Interrater Reliability
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Yan, Xun; Maeda, Yukiko; Lv, Jing; Ginther, April – Language Testing, 2016
Elicited imitation (EI) has been widely used to examine second language (L2) proficiency and development and was an especially popular method in the 1970s and early 1980s. However, as the field embraced more communicative approaches to both instruction and assessment, the use of EI diminished, and the construct-related validity of EI scores as a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Meta Analysis, Effect Size