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Ritualisation of Testing: Problematising High-Stakes English-Language Testing in Bangladesh
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Ali, Md. Maksud; Hamid, M. Obaidul; Hardy, Ian – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2020
Although use of high-stakes tests is common across developing societies, very little is known about how these tests are designed, what principles and criteria guide test construction, and what factors influence this process. The present study investigates the development of the English Paper-1 test for the Higher Secondary Certificate examination…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)