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Direct linkSuthathip Thirakunkovit – Language Testing in Asia, 2025
Establishing a cut score is a crucial aspect of the test development process since the selected cut score has the potential to impact students' performance outcomes and shape instructional strategies within the classroom. Therefore, it is vital for those involved in test development to set a cut score that is both fair and justifiable. This cut…
Descriptors: Cutting Scores, Culture Fair Tests, Language Tests, Test Construction
Agustinus Hardi Prasetyo – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Studies have shown that language assessment literacy (LAL) is important for language teachers since they make important classroom decisions to improve student learning based on their assessment. However, some studies have shown that teachers need more knowledge and skills in assessment. Teachers also seem unconfident in assessing their students…
Descriptors: Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Papageorgiou, Spiros; Morgan, Rick; Becker, Valerie – International Journal of Testing, 2015
The purpose of this study was to enhance the meaning of the scores of an English-language test by developing performance levels and descriptors for reporting overall test performance. The levels and descriptors were intended to accompany the total scale scores of TOEFL Junior® Standard, an international test of English as a second/foreign…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Florez, Ida Rose – Language Policy, 2012
The Arizona English Language Learners Assessment (AZELLA) is used by the Arizona Department of Education to determine which children should receive English support services. AZELLA results are used to determine if children are either proficient in English or have English language skills in one of four non-proficient categories (pre-emergent,…
Descriptors: Expertise, Test Validity, Second Language Learning, Cutting Scores
Download full textPapajohn, Dean – TESL-EJ, 2006
While many institutions have utilized TOEFL scores for international admissions for many years, a speaking section has never before been a required part of TOEFL until the development of the iBT/Next Generation TOEFL. So institutions will need to determine how to set standards for the speaking section of TOEFL, also known as TOEFL Academic…
Descriptors: Standard Setting, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Oral Language
Fitzpatrick, Steven J.; And Others – 1994
In 1991 the Measurement and Evaluation Center of the University of Texas at Austin was asked to develop a test for credit by examination in four lower division courses in Japanese. The test (in Japanese) was constructed from locally developed items provided by instructors of Japanese. The developed test consisted of 80 items distributed among…
Descriptors: College Students, Cutting Scores, Equivalency Tests, Higher Education
