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Cox, Troy L.; Brown, Alan V.; Thompson, Gregory L. – Language Testing, 2023
The rating of proficiency tests that use the Inter-agency Roundtable (ILR) and American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) guidelines claims that each major level is based on hierarchal linguistic functions that require mastery of multidimensional traits in such a way that each level subsumes the levels beneath it. These…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Fluency, Scoring, Cues
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LaFlair, Geoffrey T.; Staples, Shelley – Language Testing, 2017
Investigations of the validity of a number of high-stakes language assessments are conducted using an argument-based approach, which requires evidence for inferences that are critical to score interpretation (Chapelle, Enright, & Jamieson, 2008b; Kane, 2013). The current study investigates the extrapolation inference for a high-stakes test of…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Language Tests, Test Validity, Inferences
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Pill, John – Language Testing, 2016
The "indigenous assessment practices" (Jacoby & McNamara, 1999) in selected health professions were investigated to inform a review of the scope of assessment in the speaking sub-test of a specific-purpose English language test for health professionals, the Occupational English Test (OET). The assessment criteria in current use on…
Descriptors: Health Personnel, Grammar, Language Usage, Patients