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Dawadi, Saraswati; Shrestha, Prithvi N. – Educational Assessment, 2018
There has been a steady interest in investigating the validity of language tests in the last decades. Despite numerous studies on construct validity in language testing, there are not many studies examining the construct validity of a reading test. This paper reports on a study that explored the construct validity of the English reading test in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Construct Validity, Reading Tests, English (Second Language)
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Cheng, Liying; Klinger, Don A.; Zheng, Ying – Language Testing, 2007
Results from the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT) indicate that English as a Second Language (ESL) and English Literacy Development (ELD) students have comparatively low success and high deferral rates. This study examined the 2002 and 2003 OSSLT test performances of ESL/ELD and non-ESL/ELD students in order to identify and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Skills, Writing Skills, Literacy