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Download full textLuis Felipe Dias Lopes; Fabiane Volpato Chiapinoto; Martiele Gonçalves Moreira; Nuvea Kuhn; Fillipe Grando Lopes; Luciana Davi Traverso; Deoclécio Junior Cardoso Silva; Gilnei Luiz de Moura – Journal of Education and Learning, 2024
This study aimed to validate a scale for subjectively measuring teaching competencies for innovation in higher education. The scale was developed by creating a set of items that underwent content validity through the Delphi technique and face validity. A survey was then conducted with 523 higher education professors. The resulting scale, called…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Competencies, Teacher Competency Testing
Direct linkZhao, Cecilia Guanfang; Liu, Carina Jiayu – Language Testing, 2019
Celpe-Bras, is the exam for the certification of proficiency in Portuguese as a foreign language. It, is the only Portuguese proficiency test recognized by the Brazilian government (Ministério da Educação, 2013). Given the recent growth of interest and also its unique design as a large-scale proficiency test, this article provides a general…
Descriptors: Portuguese, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
Schmidgall, Jonathan E.; Getman, Edward P.; Zu, Jiyun – Language Testing, 2018
In this study, we define the term "screener test," elaborate key considerations in test design, and describe how to incorporate the concepts of practicality and argument-based validation to drive an evaluation of screener tests for language assessment. A screener test is defined as a brief assessment designed to identify an examinee as a…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Test Use, Test Construction, Language Tests
Ling, Guangming – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2017
To investigate whether the type of keyboard used in exams introduces any construct-irrelevant variance to the TOEFL iBT Writing scores, we surveyed 17,040 TOEFL iBT examinees from 24 countries on their keyboard-related perceptions and preferences and analyzed the survey responses together with their test scores. Results suggest that controlling…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Writing Tests
Bessa, Nicia M. – 1975
New legislation on education, introduced in Brazil from 1968 to 1971, addresses university entrance requirements and exam characteristics by calling for centralization of exam preparation, examinee registration, test administration, test scoring and result reporting, and the use of objective tests. The Brazilian educational structure has three…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Career Choice, Centralization, College Admission
Peer reviewedBigras, Marc; Dessen, Maria Auxiliadora – Early Education and Development, 2002
Tested validity of the Portuguese version of the Social Competence and Behavior Evaluation questionnaire. Found results similar to original French-Canadian instrument in stability, internal consistency, and factorial structure. Found associations between teacher's description of social competence and behavioral difficulties in Brazilian…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Competence
