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Thi My Hang Nguyen; Peter Gu; Averil Coxhead – Language Testing, 2024
Despite extensive research on assessing collocational knowledge, valid measures of academic collocations remain elusive. With the present study, we employ an argument-based approach to validate two Academic Collocation Tests (ACTs) that assess the ability to recognize and produce academic collocations (i.e., two-word units such as "key…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Entrance Examinations, English (Second Language)
Lily An; Zach Branson; Luke Miratrix – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Sometimes a treatment, such as receiving a high school diploma, is assigned to students if their scores on two inputs (e.g., math and English test scores) are above established cutoffs. This forms a multidimensional regression discontinuity design (RDD) to analyze the effect of the educational treatment where there are two running variables…
Descriptors: Hierarchical Linear Modeling, English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Nastasia Schreiner; Aleksandr Shneyderman – Office of Assessment, Research, and Data Analysis, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2024
To meet graduation requirements, public school students in Florida must participate in and pass any statewide, standardized assessments required for a standard diploma or earn identified concordant scores or comparative scores, as applicable, for the cohort year in which they entered in ninth grade (M-DCPS, 2024). One of the statewide assessments…
Descriptors: Scores, Graduation Requirements, Grade 10, Language Arts