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Harding, Luke; Alderson, J. Charles; Brunfaut, Tineke – Language Testing, 2015
Alderson, Brunfaut and Harding (2014) recently investigated how diagnosis is practised across a range of professions in order to develop a tentative framework for a theory of diagnosis in second or foreign language (SFL) assessment. In articulating this framework, a set of five broad principles were proposed, encompassing the entire enterprise of…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Language Tests, Reading Tests, Second Language Learning
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Gao, Lingyun; Rogers, W. Todd – Language Testing, 2011
The purpose of this study was to explore whether the results of Tree Based Regression (TBR) analyses, informed by a validated cognitive model, would enhance the interpretation of item difficulties in terms of the cognitive processes involved in answering the reading items included in two forms of the Michigan English Language Assessment Battery…
Descriptors: Test Items, Reading Tests, Item Analysis, Reading Processes