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Download full textCormack, Andrew; Reeve, David – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2022
With student and staff wellbeing a growing concern, several authors have asked whether existing data might help institutions provide better support. By analogy with the established field of Learning Analytics, this might involve identifying causes of stress, improving access to information for those who need it, suggesting options, providing rapid…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Well Being, Data Use, Ethics
Papageorgiou, Spiros – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2022
The introduction of the CEFR was welcomed by researchers and practitioners in language education, given its potential for increasing transparency of test results and the meaningfulness of test scores. In this paper, I reflect on Glenn Fulcher's (2004, 2016) critical take on the use of the CEFR in the context of mapping (linking or aligning) test…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Rating Scales, Test Results, Scores
Schmidgall, Jonathan – Educational Testing Service, 2021
The redesigned "TOEIC Bridge"® tests are designed to measure the reading, listening, speaking, and writing proficiency of beginning to low-intermediate English learners in the context of everyday adult life. This report describes the comprehensive and multifaceted process used to enhance the meaningfulness of TOEIC Bridge test score…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
Direct linkHarsch, Claudia – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2018
The discussion takes up the common theme across the seven contributions of this special issue, namely the CEFR's suitability as a basis for setting university entrance standards. The special issue allows insights into this theme from a multitude of contexts, languages and perspectives, including data from stakeholders, students, tests and their…
Descriptors: Standard Setting, Guidelines, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
Widmer, Thomas – New Directions for Evaluation, 2004
For many years, the European evaluation community did not recognize evaluation standards as a relevant tool for quality assurance. References to the developments in the United States were exceptionally rare in the European evaluation literature during the 1970s and 1980s. One of the first articles on evaluation standards to appear in the European…
Descriptors: National Organizations, Standard Setting, Evaluation, Quality Control
Rugh, Jim – New Directions for Evaluation, 2004
The 1996 American Evaluation Association conference in Atlanta featured a session on strategies to promote monitoring and evaluation (M&E) in international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs). At that time, there was a lengthy list of proposed initiatives to be undertaken in CARE. With the perspective of hindsight and reviewing the…
Descriptors: Nonprofit Organizations, Nongovernmental Organizations, Foreign Countries, Program Development
