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Saito, Hidetoshi; Sawaki, Yasuyo; Kasahara, Kiwamu – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2022
The study evaluated a recently postponed national test policy on the use of external agencies' English tests measuring four skills for Japanese university admission purposes. Using Kunnan's principles of fairness and justice, we generated and evaluated three claims regarding the test policy: vocabulary coverage of the tests, the justifiability of…
Descriptors: Ethics, Equal Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Sawaki, Yasuyo – Language Testing in Asia, 2017
Background: This small-scale needs analysis study examined content course faculty members' perspectives on English language demands in their courses and their perceptions of the introduction of four-skill English language assessment for university entrance examinations currently being planned as part of a major English education reform in Japan.…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Sawaki, Yasuyo; Kim, Hae-Jin; Gentile, Claudia – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2009
In cognitive diagnosis a Q-matrix (Tatsuoka, 1983, 1990), which is an incidence matrix that defines the relationships between test items and constructs of interest, has great impact on the nature of performance feedback that can be provided to score users. The purpose of the present study was to identify meaningful skill coding categories that…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Test Items, Test Content, Identification