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Mohamadi, Zohre; Malekshahi, Negin – Language Testing in Asia, 2018
Background: Inadequacy of authority-based defensive teaching and summative and product-based evaluation such as certification and observation measures in providing information about the actual teaching teachers do was an inspiration in this study to design an inventory for formative and process-based evaluation of teacher competences. This study…
Descriptors: Teacher Competencies, Teacher Competency Testing, Teacher Evaluation, Formative Evaluation
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Kiany, Gholam-Reza; ShayesteFar, Parvaneh; Amoosi, Yasser – International Journal of Language Testing, 2017
Teacher evaluation and certification is a proper approach taken to assess teacher knowledge base and to guarantee that teacher candidates are qualified and have met particular teaching standards. To this end, teacher-education university (i.e., Farhangian University) of Iran recently adopted a teacher evaluation and certification policy,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Construction, English (Second Language), Language Teachers
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Pishghadam, Reza; Khosropanah, Farnoush – International Education Studies, 2011
The major purpose of this study was to examine the construct validity of English Language Teachers Competency Test (ELT-CT) designed by Pishghadam, Baghaei and Shahriari (2010). In this study, Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was used to examine the construct validity of the test. The results have shown that the underlying factors of the test are…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Teacher Competency Testing, English (Second Language), English Teachers
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Kiomrs, Razavipour; Abdolmehdi, Riazi; Rashidi, Naser – English Language Teaching, 2011
It is by now well established that teacher characteristics play a major role in the way high stakes tests impact education (Alderson and Hamp-Lyons, 1996). What remains an open question, however, is specifying the type of characteristics that have the potential to moderate the backwash effects of tests. This study was designed to isolate the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Literacy, Case Studies