Improving ESL Placement Tests Using Two Perspectives.

Brown, James Dean

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ERIC Number: EJ389008

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Publication Date: 1989

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Improving ESL Placement Tests Using Two Perspectives.

Brown, James Dean

TESOL Quarterly, v23 n1 p65-83 Mar 1989

Criterion-referenced testing was used to complement norm-referenced procedures in a revision of a university's English-as-a-Second-Language placement test for reading. Test validation results indicated that the revised test better matched the university's program and included more items related to the content and skills that students were learning. (Author/CB)

Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Language Tests, Norm Referenced Tests, Reading Tests, Second Language Instruction, Student Placement, Test Construction, Test Theory, Test Validity

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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Note: Revised version of a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (21st, Miami, FL, April 1987).