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Cultivating Assessment Literacy: Standards Evaluation through Language-Test Specification Reverse Engineering
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Walters, F. Scott – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2010
The promulgation of ESL learning standards by government agencies and professional organizations is intended to improve second-language (L2) proficiency and academic achievement. However, mandates have been criticized on various grounds, including difficulty of defining domains to be tested as well as vagueness of articulation. Arising from the…
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