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Direct linkThi My Hang Nguyen; Peter Gu; Averil Coxhead – Language Testing, 2024
Despite extensive research on assessing collocational knowledge, valid measures of academic collocations remain elusive. With the present study, we employ an argument-based approach to validate two Academic Collocation Tests (ACTs) that assess the ability to recognize and produce academic collocations (i.e., two-word units such as "key…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Entrance Examinations, English (Second Language)
Download full textSteedle, Jeffrey; Quesen, Sarah; Boyd, Aimee – Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, 2017
On the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) assessments, the attainment of performance level 4 is intended to indicate college readiness or being "on track" to college and career readiness. Students who achieve Level 4 should have a 0.75 probability of attaining at least a C in entry-level,…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Test Validity, Longitudinal Studies
Peer reviewedAyers, Jerry B.; And Others – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1973
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Language Programs, Language Tests, Multiple Regression Analysis
Snyder, Vivian; Elmore, Patricia B. – 1983
The sample for this study included 496 students admitted to a large midwestern university through the special admissions program. Validity coefficients of the Descriptive Tests of Language Skills (DTLS) subtests, the Academic Tests of the ACT Assessment Program (ACT), and high school percentile rank were calculated with cumulative grade point…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Rank, College Entrance Examinations, Developmental Studies Programs
