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Improving ESL Placement Tests Using Two Perspectives.
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Brown, James Dean – TESOL Quarterly, 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…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Language Tests