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Direct linkReeta Neittaanmäki; Iasonas Lamprianou – Language Testing, 2024
This article focuses on rater severity and consistency and their relation to major changes in the rating system in a high-stakes testing context. The study is based on longitudinal data collected from 2009 to 2019 from the second language (L2) Finnish speaking subtest in the National Certificates of Language Proficiency in Finland. We investigated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interrater Reliability, Evaluators, Item Response Theory
Lantsoght, Eva O. L. – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
The doctoral defence is the oral examination of the doctoral thesis. While it is a major milestone for doctoral candidates, this event is often shrouded in mystery. In this article, I explore the doctoral defence from an international perspective. I have studied the format of the defence based on written testimonies as well as the literature on…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Doctoral Students, Verbal Tests, Discourse Analysis
Liski, Erkki P.; Puntanen, Simo – 1985
A statistical model is presented for analyzing the results of group conversation tests in English, developed in a Finnish university study from 1977 to 1981. The model is illustrated with the findings from the study. In this study, estimates of percentile curves for the number of errors are of greater interest than the mean regression line. It was…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Foreign Countries
