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Shih, Chih-Min – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2008
Since 2000, the General English Proficiency Test, a newly developed test of English, has been phased in by the Language Training and Testing Center in Taiwan. It has become the most universally used test of English in Taiwan, a fact that can be evidenced by its aggregate number of registered test takers. This article first describes the…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Grading, Foreign Countries, Language Proficiency
Bailey, Alison L.; Stevens, Robin; Butler, Frances A.; Huang, Becky; Miyoshi, Judy N. – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2005
The work we report focuses on utilizing linguistic profiles of mathematics, science and social studies textbook selections for the creation of reading test specifications. Once we determined that a text and associated tasks fit within the parameters established in Butler et al. (2004), they underwent both internal and external review by language…
Descriptors: Test Items, Profiles, Linguistics, Reading Tests