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Heil, Donald K.; Aleamoni, Lawrence M. – 1974
The grades which foreign students receive are not always based on the same criteria as the grades assigned to native American students. The use of standardized test scores provides a common data base from which to evaluate the relative proficiency level of foreign students. This study examines the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Language Ability
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Sommers, Ronald K.; And Others – Journal of Special Education, 1978
Seven independent studies of young children's performances on language tests were reviewed. (Author/BD)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Exceptional Child Research, Language Ability, Language Skills
Bordie, John G. – Elem Engl, 1970
A list of publication sources for language tests and a 48-item bibliography are appended; a preprint from a pamphlet to be published by the National Conference on Research in English. (Editor/RD)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Ability, Language Proficiency, Language Skills
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Dever, Richard B. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1972
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Language Ability, Language Tests, Mental Retardation
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Petersen, Calvin R.; Ali-Haik, Antoine R. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1976
Develops and validates a new language aptitude battery to be used for the selection of military personnel for training at the Defense Language Institute which offers over 50 foreign language courses. (RC)
Descriptors: Enlisted Personnel, Factor Analysis, Grade Prediction, Language Ability
Pickering, Michael – 1976
The cloze test requires a student to fill gaps in a text with appropriate words where every nth word is deleted. The cloze procedure forms a test of a reader's ability to predict, on the basis of context, what word will occur. Test marking may be narrow, in which only the exact word omitted is counted as correct, or broad, where any acceptable…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Language Ability, Language Skills
Politzer, Robert L.; McKay, Maryann – 1974
This study represents several years' work on devising tests to measure children's relative proficiency in two languages or speech varieties. A preliminary oral proficiency test in English and Spanish was administered to 45 bilingual students, of whom 41 took both versions. On the basis of difficulty and significant tendencies, 32 items were…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Diagnostic Tests, Grammar, Interference (Language)
HOLTZMAN, PAUL D. – 1967
THE AUTHOR POINTS OUT PROBLEMS IN TEST RESEARCH AND INTERPRETATION, SOME OF WHICH ARE DUE TO CONFLICTS BETWEEN THE FINDINGS OF THE DATA ANALYST WHO IS RESTRICTED TO BASING HIS DECISIONS ON SELECTED DATA ONLY, AND THE TEST INTERPRETER WHO IS AWARE OF VARIABLE VALIDITIES OF SUCH UNTESTED FACTORS AS SITUATIONAL ANXIETY, PERSONALITY, MOTHER-TONGUE…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Testing, English (Second Language), Factor Analysis
Fredrick, Wayne C.; And Others – 1970
The conceptualization of the term "psycholinguistic ability" led to the definition of an area of language behavior that is not well represented in achievement tests in English nor in existing tests of verbal intelligence. Thus, the Linguistic Ability Test (LAT) was designed, pilot-tested, revised, and field-tested in an attempt to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 6, Language Ability
Culhane, P. T.; And Others – Univ. of Essex Language Centre Occasional Papers, 1970
This collection of papers assesses the validity of the MLAT. It is not self-evident that a test designed for English speaking university students in America and validated there is necessarily valid in an English university. The differences between American English and British English are evident, and American universities admit a greater…
Descriptors: Aptitude, Aptitude Tests, Error Patterns, Language Ability
Evard, Beth L.; McGrady, Harold J. – 1974
The development of local norms using the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities was part of a larger study, the purpose of which was to identify the percentage of Arizona school children having a handicap. The first step in this part of the project, which involved screening for communication disorders, was the selection of tests to identify…
Descriptors: American Indians, Blacks, Child Language, Cultural Influences
Center for Applied Linguistics, Arlington, VA. – 1975
This guide first points out the difficulty and the lack of reliability involved in using tests to evaluate the abilities of children from linguistically and culturally diverse backgrounds. Suggestions are then given for using existing evaluation techniques to test the English language proficiency of children at kindergarten level. The following…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammar, Indochinese, Kindergarten
Jones, Randall L., Ed.; Spolsky, Bernard, Ed. – 1975
This publication is a compilation of the papers presented at the 1974 Washington Language Testing Sumposium. The volume also includes much of the discussion that followed each paper. The participants were an international group of language testing specialists from academic institutions, research centers, and government agencies. The primary focus…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Curriculum Guides, Language Ability, Language Fluency
Robinson, Gail L. – 1975
"Linguistic ability" is a widely misused term in foreign language literature. This confusion prompted an investigation into language aptitude testing, the specific goals of which included determining: the distribution of language aptitude across ability range; the validity of Pimsleur's suggestions of combined verbal and auditory scores;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Aptitude Tests, Individualized Instruction
Oller, John W., Jr.; Perkins, Kyle – 1978
This book addresses the question of what tests are measures of. Intelligence, achievement, and personality tests not based on empirical investigation have questionable validity. Some researchers now suspect that almost all tests given to students in all subjects, as well as general tests of intelligence and personality, are essentially language…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Cloze Procedure