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Coniam, David – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2014
This article reports a case study of students attending a fee-paying private tutorial school in Hong Kong in 2009-2010. They were retaking the Year 11 English language public examination, attempting to improve grades obtained in 2008-2009. The mainly qualitative study extends an earlier quantitative study (Coniam Recent developments in English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Education, Tutorial Programs, Case Studies
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Coniam, David – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2009
This paper examines the quality of tests that Hong Kong teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) produce for their own EFL students. The paper examines the effects on graduate teachers of a language testing programme where participants produced objective tests, proceeding through the stages of test specification, moderation, and item…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Objective Tests, Test Reliability, Item Analysis