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Walter Araya Garita; José Alejandro Fallas Godínez – Research in Pedagogy, 2024
The English Diagnostic Test aims to assess reading comprehension skills for first-year students at the University of Costa Rica. In 2022, this test consisted of four instruments with 55 items. Instruments were based on an academic reading, following the criteria B2+ or C1 level according to Common European Framework of Reference for languages.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Tests, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Diagnosis
Thippayacharoen, Thanakrit; Hoofd, Chonlatee; Pala, Napat; Sameephet, Banchakarn; Satthamnuwong, Bhirawit – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
Research on English Medium Instruction (EMI) is rapidly increasing and well-documented worldwide; however, recent studies in EMI have given less emphasis on assessments in EMI classrooms. Indeed, assessment plays a significant role in informing teaching and learning competencies, but what to assess and how to assess are questions which have been…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Tavarez Da Costa, Pedro; Reyes Arias, Fransheska – Online Submission, 2021
The present work seeks to establish a comparison between two different and distant evaluation tools applied to the Dominican student population in order to measure the efficiency of our educational system in the recent years, one of them measured the quality of Dominican education in three areas (the PISA Test), whereas the other tested the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Standardized Tests, Student Evaluation, International Assessment
Boylu, Emrah – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2021
The aim of this research is to determine teachers' attitude levels towards assessment and evaluation who teach Turkish as a foreign language and to examine them in terms of various variables. Survey method, one of the quantitative research methods, was used in the research. Teachers (n=233) who teach Turkish in various institutions participated in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Turkish, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Elturki, Eman – English Teaching Forum, 2020
Accrediting agencies for English language programs, such as the Commission on English Language Program Accreditation (CEA), require a plan in writing for monitoring and reviewing assessment practices. Nonetheless, web-search queries such as "assessing assessment," "how to assess assessment," "assessing assessment…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, English (Second Language), Student Evaluation, Test Reliability
Anani Sarab, Mohammad Reza; Rahmani, Simindokht – International Journal of Language Testing, 2023
Language testing and assessment have grown in popularity and gained significance in the last few decades, and there is a rising need for assessment literate stakeholders in the field of language education. As teachers play a major role in assessing students, there is a need to make sure they have the right level of assessment knowledge and skills…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Literacy, Second Language Learning, Factor Analysis
Ali, Md. Maksud; Hamid, M. Obaidul; Hardy, Ian – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2020
Although use of high-stakes tests is common across developing societies, very little is known about how these tests are designed, what principles and criteria guide test construction, and what factors influence this process. The present study investigates the development of the English Paper-1 test for the Higher Secondary Certificate examination…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Tosuncuoglu, Irfan – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
Assessment has an important role in education and it has a critical role in the teaching process. Through appropriate assessment, teachers can classify and grade their students, give feedback and structure their teaching accordingly. Recently, educators and scientists have been becoming more interested in the requirements of assessment procedures…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Student Evaluation, Second Language Learning
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
DiBiase-Lubrano, Mary Jo – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2018
Language testing is an integral part of teaching and learning, yet most language faculty do not receive adequate training for developing tests (Taylor, [Taylor, L., 2009]). Most have advanced degrees in literary and cultural studies in the target language but often have insufficient training in pedagogy and assessment. This shortcoming is alarming…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Tests
Fong, Chan Suet; DeWitt, Dorothy – Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction, 2019
Purpose: Intercultural communicative competence (ICC) is important in intercultural exchange, to address problems and conflicts which may arise due to miscommunication that results from interlocutors' diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Interlocutors may have different perceptions and interpretations of communicative behaviour. However,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Formative 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
Brown, Alan V.; Plonsky, Luke; Teimouri, Yasser – Foreign Language Annals, 2018
Much of applied linguistics research has been concerned with classroom-based second language (L2) development as it offers an ideal setting for examining the institutional ecology of L2 learning and teaching. However, scholars have continued to call for greater attention to the operationalization of constructs, selection of valid assessments, and…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Tests
Steinkamp, Susan Christa – ProQuest LLC, 2017
For test scores that rely on the accurate estimation of ability via an IRT model, their use and interpretation is dependent upon the assumption that the IRT model fits the data. Examinees who do not put forth full effort in answering test questions, have prior knowledge of test content, or do not approach a test with the intent of answering…
Descriptors: Test Items, Item Response Theory, Scores, Test Wiseness
Karlin, Omar; Karlin, Sayaka – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2018
This study had two aims. The first was to explain the process of using the Rasch measurement model to validate tests in an easy-to-understand way for those unfamiliar with the Rasch measurement model. The second was to validate two final exams with several shared items. The exams were given to two groups of students with slightly differing English…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Test Validity, Test Items, Accuracy