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Ostovar-Namaghi, Seyyed Ali; Iranmehr, Abutaleb; Moghaddam, Mostafa Morady – International Journal of Language Testing, 2021
Some universities in Iran have recently witnessed a shift in admission criteria from university admission test performance towards high school records. This sudden change seems to be unwarranted since the predictive power of high school records has not been explored. To fill in this gap, this study aims at showcasing the predictive validity of…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Records, Predictive Validity, College Entrance Examinations
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Ravand, Hamdollah; Firoozi, Tahereh – International Journal of Language Testing, 2016
The purpose of the present study was to explore validity of the University Entrance Examination for applicants into English Master's Programs in Iran (Master's UEE) with respect to the Messickian validity framework using the Rasch model. The data of 18821 test takers taking the 2009 version of the UEE were analyzed with Winsteps and R package eRm.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Entrance Examinations, Test Validity, Masters Programs
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Zafarmand, Atefeh; Ghanizadeh, Afsaneh; Akbari, Omid – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This article sets out to examine the relationship between EFL learners' goal orientation, metacognitive awareness and self-efficacy in a single framework. One hundred fifteen EFL students from two universities of Mashhad, a city in north-eastern Iran took part in this study. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was utilized to examine the…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Goal Orientation, Metacognition, English (Second Language)
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Pishghadam, Reza; Noghani, Mohsen; Zabihi, Reza – English Language Teaching, 2011
The aim of this study was to find out the relationship between EFL students' social as well as cultural capital and their foreign language achievement, using Bourdieu's theories in the sociology of education as frames of reference. To this end, the Social and Cultural Capital Questionnaire (SCCQ) was administered to 128 EFL learners majoring in…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Social Capital, Cultural Capital, English (Second Language)