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Peer reviewedJoughin, Gordon – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 1998
Analysis of literature on oral assessment in college instruction identified six dimensions: primary content type; interaction between examiner and learner; authenticity of assessment task; structure of assessment task; examiner; and orality (extent to which knowledge is tested orally). These help in understanding the nature of oral assessment and…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Higher Education, Student Evaluation, Test Format
Download full textSchaeffer, Gary A.; And Others – 1995
This report summarizes the results from two studies. The first assessed the comparability of scores derived from linear computer-based (CBT) and computer adaptive (CAT) versions of the three Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) General Test measures. A verbal CAT was taken by 1,507, a quantitative CAT by 1,354, and an analytical CAT by 995…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing, Equated Scores
Peer reviewedPaulus, Linda – Hispania, 1998
An oral testing method used in an intensive high school Spanish program is based on a model of communicative competence positing four forms of competence: strategic; sociolinguistic; discourse; and linguistic. All oral domains but linguistic are tested in the first and second years. In the first year, benchmark testing occurs. The rubric used has…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), High Schools, Language Tests, Oral Language
Nakamura, Yuji – Journal of Communication Studies, 1997
This study investigated the effects of three aspects of language testing (test task, familiarity with an interviewer, and test method) on both tester and tested. Data were drawn from several previous studies by the researcher. Concerning test task, data were analyzed for the type of topic students wanted most to talk about or preferred not to talk…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Interrater Reliability
Peer reviewedTurner, Jean – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1998
This review of research on second-language oral testing outlines the nature of early research in interview-format proficiency testing, then reports on new directions in investigation of construct validity of interview-format and other oral skills tests through examination of examinee, interviewer, and rater performance. Research on empirically…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Educational Trends, Interrater Reliability, Interviews
Chalhoub-Deville, Micheline – 1993
This study investigated whether different groups of native speakers assess second language learners' language skills differently for three elicitation techniques. Subjects were six learners of college-level Arabic as a second language, tape-recorded performing three tasks: participating in a modified oral proficiency interview, narrating a picture…
Descriptors: Arabic, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
