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Kiany, Gholam-Reza; ShayesteFar, Parvaneh; Amoosi, Yasser – International Journal of Language Testing, 2017
Teacher evaluation and certification is a proper approach taken to assess teacher knowledge base and to guarantee that teacher candidates are qualified and have met particular teaching standards. To this end, teacher-education university (i.e., Farhangian University) of Iran recently adopted a teacher evaluation and certification policy,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Construction, English (Second Language), Language Teachers
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Coniam, David; Falvey, Peter – Language Testing, 2013
The "Language Proficiency Assessment for Teachers of English" (LPATE) is a test of standards of English language ability for Hong Kong primary and secondary school teachers of English. The impetus for the creation of the LPATE arose, in 1996, because of concerns in business and education communities over falling English language…
Descriptors: English Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Language Tests
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Pishghadam, Reza; Khosropanah, Farnoush – International Education Studies, 2011
The major purpose of this study was to examine the construct validity of English Language Teachers Competency Test (ELT-CT) designed by Pishghadam, Baghaei and Shahriari (2010). In this study, Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was used to examine the construct validity of the test. The results have shown that the underlying factors of the test are…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Teacher Competency Testing, English (Second Language), English Teachers
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Gu, Lin; Turkan, Sultan; Gomez, Pablo Garcia – ETS Research Report Series, 2015
ELTeach is an online professional development program developed by Educational Testing Service (ETS) in collaboration with National Geographic Learning. The ELTeach program consists of two courses: English-for-Teaching and Professional Knowledge for English Language Teaching (ELT). Each course includes a coordinated assessment leading to a score…
Descriptors: Item Analysis, Test Items, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction