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Jiyoon Lee; Natalia Goldenberg; Debby?Pastrana Williams – ELT Journal, 2023
This reflective action research documents the mutual learning experiences of three education stakeholders as they construct their language assessment literacy (LAL). A?teacher educator, an inservice teacher, and a preservice teacher were the three stakeholders who took part in a project on language assessment development for ESOL students at a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Tests
Bateson, Gordon – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
As a result of the Japanese Ministry of Education's recent edict that students' written and spoken English should be assessed in university entrance exams, there is an urgent need for tools to help teachers and students prepare for these exams. Although some commercial tools already exist, they are generally expensive and inflexible. To address…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Computer Assisted Testing, Internet, Writing Tests
Schumaker, Jean B. – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2022
The purpose of this study was to determine whether struggling adolescent writers could learn sentence and paragraph writing skills from a software program. Nine junior-high and nine senior-high struggling writers participated in a multiple-probe across-students design that was replicated six times. Instructional procedures within the software…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Writing Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Computer Software
Demir, Serkan – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2022
The aim of this study is to determine the effect of writing education carried out according to the self-regulation strategy development model on the self-regulation writing skills, self-efficacy perceptions, and creative thinking skills of gifted and talented students. In this study, a pre-test and post-test design with a control group was…
Descriptors: Gifted Education, Academically Gifted, Writing Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
Rogers, Christopher M.; Ressa, Virginia A.; Thurlow, Martha L.; Lazarus, Sheryl S. – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2022
This report provides an update on the state of the research on testing accommodations. Previous reports by the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO) have covered research published since 1999. In this report, we summarize the research published in 2020. During 2020, 11 research studies addressed testing accommodations in the U.S. K-12…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Testing Accommodations, Students with Disabilities, Computer Assisted Testing
Lee, Elizabeth – English Teaching, 2023
In many high-stakes testing situations, test-takers are not allowed to draw on external writing resources while writing, a practice observed more frequently in classroom settings. This may pose problems with the representativeness of test tasks and score interpretations. This study investigates the domain definition of one particular test known as…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Eckes, Thomas; Jin, Kuan-Yu – International Journal of Testing, 2021
Severity and centrality are two main kinds of rater effects posing threats to the validity and fairness of performance assessments. Adopting Jin and Wang's (2018) extended facets modeling approach, we separately estimated the magnitude of rater severity and centrality effects in the web-based TestDaF (Test of German as a Foreign Language) writing…
Descriptors: Language Tests, German, Second Languages, Writing Tests
Rogers, Christopher M.; Lazarus, Sheryl S.; Thurlow, Martha L. – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2021
The purpose of this report is to present a synthesis of the research on test accommodations for U.S. elementary and secondary students (K-12) published in 2018. The academic literature described here encompasses empirical studies of performance comparability, investigations into accommodations use, implementation practices, and perceptions of the…
Descriptors: Testing Accommodations, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Research, Students with Disabilities
Sumner, Josh – Research-publishing.net, 2021
Comparative Judgement (CJ) has emerged as a technique that typically makes use of holistic judgement to assess difficult-to-specify constructs such as production (speaking and writing) in Modern Foreign Languages (MFL). In traditional approaches, markers assess candidates' work one-by-one in an absolute manner, assigning scores to different…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Student Evaluation, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making
Peter Crosthwaite; Brett Steeples – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
Corpus-based approaches to language and literacy education, commonly known as data-driven learning (DDL), are increasing in prominence. However, the vast majority of DDL interventions involve adult tertiary level learners, leaving a dire need for comprehensive DDL studies for secondary education. The present study reports on a half-year DDL…
Descriptors: Single Sex Schools, Females, Secondary School Students, Grammar
Khaled Barkaoui – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2024
Many English language proficiency (ELP) tests used for university admissions and placement now include integrated writing tasks that require examinees to use external sources when writing. Integrated writing tasks improve test authenticity and impact, but they raise several validity questions, such as what academic language skills they engage and…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Language Tests, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning
Conner, Carlin; Henry, Alyssa R.; Solari, Emily J.; Zajic, Matthew C. – Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 2022
Background and aims: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, tele-health has gained popularity for both providing services and delivering assessments to children with disabilities. In this manuscript, we discuss the process of collecting standardized oral language, reading, and writing tele-assessment data with early elementary children with autism spectrum…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Written Language, Writing Skills, Writing Evaluation
Xu, Jinfen; Li, Changying – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
This study investigates how different form-focused instruction (FFI) timing impacts English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' grammar development. A total of 169 Chinese middle school learners were assigned to four conditions randomly: control, before-isolated FFI, integrated FFI, and after-isolated FFI. The three experimental groups received…
Descriptors: Intervention, Grammar, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Ocampo, Darrel M. – Online Submission, 2023
The study identified the pragmatic competence level of the second language (L2) learners through Written Discourse Completion Test (WDCT) administered to purposively selected 40 first-year education students. A modified questionnaire based on Survey for Academic English Language Exposure (SAELE) was used to determine the effectiveness of academic…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pragmatics, Interpersonal Competence
MacArthur, Charles A.; Traga Philippakos, Zoi A.; May, Henry; Potter, Andrew; Van Horne, Sam; Compello, Jill – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a curriculum based on self-regulated strategy instruction in college developmental writing courses. Prior research that had found large effects on the writing quality for essays without sources was extended to include strategies for critical reading and note-taking, writing summary response…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Metacognition, Remedial Instruction, Outcome Measures