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Andrew Runge; Sarah Goodwin; Yigal Attali; Mya Poe; Phoebe Mulcaire; Kai-Ling Lo; Geoffrey T. LaFlair – Language Testing, 2025
A longstanding criticism of traditional high-stakes writing assessments is their use of static prompts in which test takers compose a single text in response to a prompt. These static prompts do not allow measurement of the writing process. This paper describes the development and validation of an innovative interactive writing task. After the…
Descriptors: Material Development, Writing Evaluation, Writing Assignments, Writing Skills
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Patekar, Jakob – Language Testing, 2021
Writing in a foreign language is a particularly difficult skill to develop, especially when young learners are concerned because they are parallelly learning to write in their L1 and do not have strong oral foundations in their L2. The issue becomes even more complex when the ways to assess young learners' writing are considered, given that…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Test Construction, Foreign Countries, Oral Language
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Llosa, Lorena; Malone, Margaret E. – Language Testing, 2019
Investigating the comparability of students' performance on TOEFL writing tasks and actual academic writing tasks is essential to provide backing for the extrapolation inference in the TOEFL validity argument (Chapelle, Enright, & Jamieson, 2008). This study compared 103 international non-native-English-speaking undergraduate students'…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning