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Analyzing media discourse on the development of the National English Ability Test (NEAT) in South Korea
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 9 - Trang 1-14 - 2019
The purpose of this study is to analyze newspaper articles from three publications (Chosun Ilbo, Donga Ilbo, and JoongAng Ilbo) regarding a newly developed high-stakes English test in South Korea, the National English Ability Test (NEAT), from the viewpoint of critical discourse analysis. All of the articles were collected from online archives, and most were published between 2007 and 2012. The ev......
Assessment, Testing and Correcting Studentsxs' Errors and Mistakes
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 1 - Trang 1-31 - 2011
This study is the result of continuous four-year work in the field of noting and reviewing of errors in learning English. The object of this research were 50 students at the State University of Tetova who study English. In this work were studied errors made by students during tests, interviews, dictations, writing paragraphs and different essays. If in the spoken language errors can be allowed wit......
Interconnection between constructs and consequences: a key validity consideration in K–12 English language proficiency assessments
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 12 - Trang 1-17 - 2022
In the US K–12 public school settings, each state’s annual English language proficiency (ELP) assessment, as part of an educational accountability system, has tremendous impact on English learner (EL) students’ academic paths and success. It is thus critical to establish a robust validation framework and empirical evidence to ensure that states’ ELP assessments are both appropriately interpreted a......
Developing evidence for a validity argument for an English placement exam from multi-year test performance data
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 6 - Trang 1-14 - 2016
This study investigated the factor structure and factorial invariance of an English Placement Exam (EPE) from 1998 to 2011 to provide evidence for both the appropriateness of the test scores interpretations and for a validity argument. Test performance data collected from 38,632 freshmen non-English majors from a university in central Taiwan from 13 years (1998–2001, and 2003–2011) was examined us......
On the usefulness of CDA-based score reporting: implications for self-regulated learningAbstract In cognitive diagnostic modeling research, one area that has not had enough research interests is remedial learning or instruction based on the information provided by cognitive diagnostic assessment (CDA). The present study tries to address this research gap by looking into the usefulness of the fine-grained score reports based on CDA in two different ways... ...
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 11 Số 1 - 2021
Assessing Japanese junior high school students’ English achievement through computer-based testing in the classroom: a case of integrated reading-into-writing continuous task
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 12 - Trang 1-23 - 2022
This paper describes the exploratory case and initial evaluation of the computer-based testing (CBT) prototype. The advantage of CBT over paper-based testing (PBT) is that it allows us to control the order of questions and provides test takers with continuous tasks capturing their thought processes. Additionally, their response process data such as response time (RT) can be obtained. Taking advant......
Using Google Sites to Communicate with Parents: A Case Study
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 1 - Trang 1-11 - 2011
The paper summarizes a case study that took place in a Thai private alternative school - the Darunsikkhalai School for Innovative Learning (DSIL). More specifically, this paper focuses on the usefulness of a class website created by Google Sites in one of the mathematics classes in the school. Questionnaires are distributed to students, parents, and teachers in DSIL to discuss their attitudes, opi......
Teachers’ writing proficiency and assessment ability: the missing link in teachers’ written corrective feedback practice in an Iranian EFL context
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 7 - Trang 1-18 - 2017
Teachers’ writing proficiency and writing assessment ability and their role in improving writing instruction in second language learning classrooms are issues that have not been investigated empirically and rigorously. To bridge the gap, we investigated the writing proficiency, writing assessment ability, and written corrective feedback beliefs and practices of Iranian English teachers who gave fe......
Differential impacts of e-portfolio assessment on language learners’ engagement modes and genre-based writing improvement
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 12 - Trang 1-19 - 2022
Portfolio assessment (PA) as an assessment for learning (AfL) alternative has been under-represented in second/foreign language acquisition (SLA) research literature. This study examined the potential impacts of electronic PA (e-PA) on English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) learners’ engagement modes in descriptive and narrative genres of writing on Moodle™. To do so, 56 university students were non-......
Washback of IELTS on the Assumption College English Program
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 1 - Trang 1-35 - 2011
This paper reports and discusses how the IELTS test has brought its impact to Assumption College Thonburi English Program (ACTEP)'s exit testing, English courses offered and foreign teachers' teaching. Two different methods of data collection apply; an interview with the ACTEP Academic Head and questionnaire for Grades 10-11 students and foreign teachers. It has been found that in order to assure ......
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