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Samet Tasçi – Online Submission, 2023
The current study aimed to investigate the problems of English language teaching in Turkey from the perspectives of pre-service English language teachers. For this aim, qualitative data were collected from fifteen 4th year preservice language teachers. Reflection papers and semi structured interviews were used in the data collection process. Based…
Descriptors: Problems, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Phelps, Richard P. – Online Submission, 2020
Ten years ago, the author worked as the Director of Assessments for the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS). For temporal context, the author arrived after the first of the infamous test cheating scandals and left just before the incident that spawned a second. Indeed, the author filled a new position created to both manage test security…
Descriptors: Educational Change, School Districts, Public Schools, Testing
Salmani Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali – Online Submission, 2021
This paper follows a line of logical argumentation to claim that what Samuel Messick conceptualized about construct validation has probably been misunderstood by some educational policy makers, practicing educators, and classroom teachers. It argues that, while Messick's unified theory of test validation aimed at (a) warning educational…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Test Theory, Test Use, Affordances
Salmani Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali – Online Submission, 2021
It has been argued in the literature on (language) testing that any act of testing/assessment can impact: (1) educators' curriculum design; (2) teachers' teaching practices; and (3) students' learning behaviors. This quality of any given testing situation or act of assessment has been called washback, or backwash if you will. Washback falls into…
Descriptors: Testing Problems, Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Phelps, Richard P. – Online Submission, 2020
This review critiques the highly-praised and influential 2001 study, "Getting Tough? The Impact of High School Graduation Exams," which concluded that "minimum competency," or high school "graduation exams," had no effect on student achievement. The review compares the test classifications of "Getting…
Descriptors: High School Students, Exit Examinations, Academic Achievement, Minimum Competencies
Garcia Laborda, Jesus – Online Submission, 2015
Spain is currently living a transitional situation. In 2013 a new educational law was passed, the Organic Law that Modifies the Quality of Education (LOMCE). That law, among many other aspects, introduces the use of standardized external tests either to (1) guide or provide suggestions for the educational track, or (2) to obtain inferences towards…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Tests, Standardized Tests, Testing Problems
Schleicher, Andreas – Online Submission, 2016
The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) provides a framework in which over 80 countries collaborate to build advanced global metrics to assess the knowledge, skills and character attributes of the students. The design of assessments poses major conceptual and technical challenges, as successful learning. Beyond a sound…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Educational Methods, Educational Policy, Minimum Competency Testing
Brown, James Dean; Salmani Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali – Online Submission, 2015
In this interview, JD Brown reflects on language testing/assessment. He suggests that language testing can be seen as a continuum with hard core positivist approaches at one end and post modernist interpretive perspectives at the other, and also argues that norm referencing (be it proficiency, placement, or aptitude testing) and criterion…
Descriptors: Interviews, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Zavitkovsky, Paul; Roarty, Denis; Swanson, Jason – Online Submission, 2016
This study clarifies achievement trends that occurred under NCLB and explains why NCLB reporting practices made those trends so hard to see. It concludes by describing important contributions that new PARCC exams can make and warns of new reporting problems that threaten to squander those contributions before they see the light of day.
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement
Zopluoglu, Cengiz; Davenport, Ernest C., Jr. – Online Submission, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of answer copying on the ability level estimates of cheater examinees in answer copying pairs. The study generated answer copying pairs for each of 1440 conditions, source ability (12) x cheater ability (12) x amount of copying (10). The average difference between the ability level estimates…
Descriptors: Cheating, Multiple Choice Tests, Ability, High Stakes Tests
Herman, William E.; Nelson, Gena C. – Online Submission, 2009
This study compared college student reported grade point averages (GPA) with actual GPA as recorded at the Registrar's Office to determine the accuracy of student reported GPA. Results indicated that, on average, students reported slightly higher GPA than their actual GPA. Additionally, females were virtually as accurate as males and students with…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Research Problems, Statistical Bias, True Scores
Wang, Shudong; Jiao, Hong; Jin, Ying; Thum, Yeow Meng – Online Submission, 2010
The vertical scales of large-scale achievement tests created by using item response theory (IRT) models are mostly based on cluster (or correlated) educational data in which students usually are clustered in certain groups or settings (classrooms or schools). While such application directly violated assumption of independent sample of person in…
Descriptors: Scaling, Achievement Tests, Data Analysis, Item Response Theory
Giordano, Carolyn; Subhiyah, Raja; Hess, Brian – Online Submission, 2005
There are few certifying or recertifying examinations in the medical field that are given in a take-home format. This stems from a concern that examinees may discuss items with peers, or save copies of items on the exam and then pass them on to others. This study examined if item exposure on take-home examinations influences the difficulty of the…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Test Items, Certification, Licensing Examinations (Professions)