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Direct linkSantizo, Isabelle Poupard – Applied Language Learning, 2017
This quantitative study focuses on the relationship between foreign language learners' aptitude and proficiency test scores. Four groups of 136 beginning students received six months of Initial Acquisition Training (IAT) in four different language categories, according to the level of complexity for an English speaker: French (Category I),…
Descriptors: Correlation, Language Aptitude, Language Proficiency, French
Liu, Ou Lydia; Ryoo, Kihyun; Linn, Marcia C.; Sato, Elissa; Svihla, Vanessa – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
Although researchers call for inquiry learning in science, science assessments rarely capture the impact of inquiry instruction. This paper reports on the development and validation of assessments designed to measure middle-school students' progress in gaining integrated understanding of energy while studying an inquiry-oriented curriculum. The…
Descriptors: Energy, Science Education, Psychometrics, Case Studies
Download full textStokes-Guinan, Katie; Goldenberg, Claude – CATESOL Journal, 2011
Both California state law and the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) require that all schools assess the English language proficiency of newly enrolled students who speak a language other than English at home and, annually, all English learners (ELs) already enrolled. California meets this requirement by administering the California English…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Skills
Peariso, Jamon Frederick – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This mixed methods descriptive and causal-comparative study investigates what instructional leadership behaviors effective California high school principals have and what their beliefs are in regards to pedagogy, related issues, and professional issues, either constructivist or instructivist in nature, in the environment of the current NCLB…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Disadvantaged, Second Language Learning, Rating Scales
Boscardin, Christy Kim; Jones, Barbara; Nishimura, Claire; Madsen, Shannon; Park, Jae-Eun – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2008
Our recent review of content assessments revealed that language expectations and proficiencies are often implicitly embedded within the assessment criteria. Based on a review of performance assessments used in high school biology settings, we have found a recurring discrepancy between assessment scoring criteria and performance expectations. …
Descriptors: Biology, Secondary School Science, Student Evaluation, Validity
Lee, Saekyun H.; Han, Hyunjoo – Applied Language Learning, 2007
This study investigated some issues regarding the validity of the Scholastic Achievement Test (SAT) Subject Test: Korean with Listening. The SAT Korean has been administered just once a year since its inception in 1997. As of March 2006, it had been administered nine times. However, SAT foreign language tests are not as rigorously researched as…
Descriptors: Test Results, Second Language Learning, Language Tests, Academic Achievement
