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Okan Bulut; Guher Gorgun; Hacer Karamese – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2025
The use of multistage adaptive testing (MST) has gradually increased in large-scale testing programs as MST achieves a balanced compromise between linear test design and item-level adaptive testing. MST works on the premise that each examinee gives their best effort when attempting the items, and their responses truly reflect what they know or can…
Descriptors: Response Style (Tests), Testing Problems, Testing Accommodations, Measurement
Rivas, Axel; Scasso, Martín Guillermo – Journal of Education Policy, 2021
Since 2000, the PISA test implemented by OECD has become the prime benchmark for international comparisons in education. The 2015 PISA edition introduced methodological changes that altered the nature of its results. PISA made no longer valid non-reached items of the final part of the test, assuming that those unanswered questions were more a…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Computer Assisted Testing, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests
Behforouz, Behnam – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
The present study aimed to cover a holistic viewpoint toward assessment and its features. It discussed the problems in this area during the dominance of COVID-19. This study sought to present some notes on the current online assessment strategies used by the institutions. It measured the effects of the implemented techniques on the nature and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Holistic Approach
Karagöl, Efecan – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
Turkish and Foreign Languages Research and Application Center (TÖMER) is one of the important institutions for learning Turkish as a foreign language. In these institutions, proficiency tests are applied at the end of each level. However, test applications in TÖMERs vary between each center as there is no shared program in teaching Turkish as a…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Turkish, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning
Horák, Tania; Gandini, Elena – Research-publishing.net, 2019
This paper reports on the proposed transfer of a paper-based English proficiency exam to an online platform. We discuss both the potential predetermined advantages, which were the impetus for the project, and also some emergent benefits, which prompted an in-depth analysis and reconceptualisation of the exam's role, which in turn we hope will…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Feedback (Response), Computer Assisted Testing
Leber, Jasmin; Renkl, Alexander; Nückles, Matthias; Wäschle, Kristin – Learning: Research and Practice, 2018
According to the model of constructive alignment, learners adjust their learning strategies to the announced assessment (backwash effect). Hence, when teaching for understanding, the assessment method should be aligned with this teaching goal to ensure that learners engage in corresponding learning strategies. A quasi-experimental field study with…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Testing Problems, Educational Objectives, Learning Motivation
Zhan, Ying; Wan, Zhi Hong – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2016
Test takers' beliefs or experiences have been overlooked in most validation studies in language education. Meanwhile, a mutual exclusion has been observed in the literature, with little or no dialogue between validation studies and studies concerning the uses and consequences of testing. To help fill these research gaps, a group of Senior III…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Alberola Colomar, María Pilar – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2014
This article presents and analyses a classroom-based assessment method to test students' speaking skills in a variety of professional settings in tourism. The assessment system has been implemented in the Communication in English for Tourism course, as part of the Tourism Management degree programme, at Florida Universitaria (affiliated to the…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Tourism, Oral Language, Language Tests
Khamkhien, Attapol – English Language Teaching, 2010
To successfully assess how language learners enhance their performance and achieve language learning goals, the four macro skills of listening, speaking reading and writing are usually the most frequently assessed and focused areas. However, speaking, as a productive skill, seems intuitively the most important of all the four language skills…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Speech Instruction
Hambleton, Ronald K.; Bollwark, John – 1991
The validity of results from international assessments depends on the correctness of the test translations. If the tests presented in one language are more or less difficult because of the manner in which they are translated, the validity of any interpretation of the results can be questioned. Many test translation methods exist in the literature,…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Educational Assessment, English, Foreign Countries
Schofield, J.; Vincent, A. T. – Programmed Learning and Educational Technology, 1986
Describes a project at Chorleywood College (England) which examined the possibility of automating the transcription of braille examination responses for marking by examination boards. Discussion covers the braille code, requirements of the transcription system, an analysis of mock examination papers which led to system modification, and the final…
Descriptors: Automation, Braille, Computer Assisted Testing, Foreign Countries
Quansah, Kofi B. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Education, 1985
In many African countries tests used as a selection examination for entrance to secondary and higher levels of education do not have content validity. The practices and problems of test development in Africa are discussed. The advantages of domain-referenced tests are examined. (RM)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Developing Nations, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries

Good, Frances – Educational Studies, 1989
Considers issues surrounding the use of differentiated examinations. Discusses how differentiation may be provided, the wording of questions, and how marks should be given. Highlights some pitfalls of using this approach. Concludes that, although differentiated examinations are possible, they will not always meet the needs of the end range of test…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation, Foreign Countries
Wiliam, Dylan – Review of Research in Education, 2010
The idea that validity should be considered a property of inferences, rather than of assessments, has developed slowly over the past century. In early writings about the validity of educational assessments, validity was defined as a property of an assessment. The most common definition was that an assessment was valid to the extent that it…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Validity, Inferences, Construct Validity

Woods, Caroline; Neather, Ted – Language Learning Journal, 1994
This article discusses issues involved in second language testing at the secondary school level in Britain. It focuses on the rationale for second language testing and the need to address criticisms of language tests, such as test validity and authenticity of tasks. (nine references) (MDM)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Tests, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Programs