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Cheng, Liying; Klinger, Don; Fox, Janna; Doe, Christine; Jin, Yan; Wu, Jessica – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2014
This study examined test-takers' motivation, test anxiety, and test performance across a range of social and educational contexts in three high-stakes language tests: the Canadian Academic English Language (CAEL) Assessment in Canada, the College English Test (CET) in the People's Republic of China, and the General English Proficiency Test (GEPT)…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Test Anxiety, Language Tests, Foreign Countries
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Fox, Janna; Cheng, Liying – TESL Canada Journal, 2015
In keeping with the trend to elicit multiple stakeholder responses to operational tests as part of test validation, this exploratory mixed methods study examines test-taker accounts of an Internet-based (i.e., computer-administered) test in the high-stakes context of proficiency testing for university admission. In 2013, as language testing…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Cheng, Liying; Andrews, Stephen; Yu, Ying – Language Testing, 2011
School-based assessment (SBA) has recently been introduced into the Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examinations (HKCEE) in English. The present study was conducted within the context of this assessment change to investigate students' and parents' perceptions of the impact of SBA. Two surveys were employed to explore students' and parents'…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learning Activities, Student Surveys, Foreign Countries
Cheng, Liying – 1995
This paper presents preliminary research findings, using qualitative and quantitative methods, on the washback effect of the revised Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination in English in Hong Kong secondary schools. The research employed various methodological techniques such as questionnaires (one sent out to 42 students; and the other to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Language Tests