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Examining the Inseparability of Content Knowledge from LSP Reading Ability: An Approach Combining Bifactor-Multidimensional Item Response Theory and Structural Equation Modeling
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Cai, Yuyang; Kunnan, Antony John – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2018
This study examined the separability of domain-general and domain-specific content knowledge from Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) reading ability. A pool of 1,491 nursing students in China participated by responding to a nursing English test and a nursing knowledge test. Primary data analysis involved four steps: (a) conducting a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Item Response Theory, Structural Equation Models, English for Special Purposes
Understanding the Role of Likeability in the Peer Assessments of University Students' Oral Presentation Skills: A Latent Variable Approach
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Aryadoust, Vahid – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2017
The purpose of the present study was twofold: (a) it examined the relationship between peer-rated likeability and peer-rated oral presentation skills of 96 student presenters enrolled in a science communication course, and (b) it investigated the relationship between student raters' severity in rating presenters' likeability and their severity in…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Public Speaking, Peer Acceptance, Structural Equation Models