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Patekar, Jakob – Language Testing, 2021
Writing in a foreign language is a particularly difficult skill to develop, especially when young learners are concerned because they are parallelly learning to write in their L1 and do not have strong oral foundations in their L2. The issue becomes even more complex when the ways to assess young learners' writing are considered, given that…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Test Construction, Foreign Countries, Oral Language
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Matsuno, Sumie – Language Testing, 2009
Multifaceted Rasch measurement was used in the present study with 91 student and 4 teacher raters to investigate how self- and peer-assessments work in comparison with teacher assessments in actual university writing classes. The results indicated that many self-raters assessed their own writing lower than predicted. This was particularly true for…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Self Evaluation (Individuals), Student Evaluation, English (Second Language)
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Yu, Guoxing – Language Testing, 2007
Two kinds of scoring templates were empirically derived from summaries written by experts and students to evaluate the quality of summaries written by the students. This paper reports students' attitudes towards the use of the two templates and its differential statistical effects on the judgment of students' summarization performance. It was…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Student Attitudes, Democracy, Educational Assessment
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Schoonen, Rob; And Others – Language Testing, 1997
Reports on three studies conducted in the Netherlands about the reading reliability of lay and expert readers in rating content and language usage of students' writing performances in three kinds of writing assignments. Findings reveal that expert readers are more reliable in rating usage, whereas both lay and expert readers are reliable raters of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interrater Reliability, Language Usage, Models
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Arkoudis, Sophie; O'Loughlin, Kieran – Language Testing, 2004
This article reports on a collaborative study involving ESL teachers in an Australian English Language Centre as they work through some of their concerns about reliability and validity in their assessment practices. The focus of this article is on how teachers work with the Curriculum Standards Framework (CSF) as an assessment tool. The discussion…
Descriptors: Validity, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Immigrants
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Shi, Ling – Language Testing, 2001
Examined differences between native and nonnative English-as-a-foreign-language teachers' rating of the English writing of Chinese university students. Explored whether two groups of teachers--expatriates who typically speak English as their first language and ethnic Chinese with proficiency in English--gave similar scores to the same writing task…
Descriptors: Chinese, English (Second Language), Evaluation Criteria, Foreign Countries