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Direct linkHuang, Heng-Tsung Danny; Hung, Shao-Ting Alan; Chao, Hsiu-Yi; Chen, Jyun-Hong; Lin, Tsui-Peng; Shih, Ching-Lin – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2022
Prompted by Taiwanese university students' increasing demand for English proficiency assessment, the absence of a test designed specifically for this demographic subgroup, and the lack of a localized and freely-accessible proficiency measure, this project set out to develop and validate a computerized adaptive English proficiency testing (E-CAT)…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Download full textSchmidgall, Jonathan – ETS Research Report Series, 2020
The redesigned four-skills "TOEIC Bridge"® tests were designed to measure the listening, reading, speaking, and writing proficiency of beginning to low--intermediate English learners in the context of everyday life. In this paper, I describe two studies that were conducted to investigate claims about the meaningfulness of redesigned…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Sims, James M.; Kunnan, Antony John – Language Testing in Asia, 2016
Background: This study investigated the factor structure and factorial invariance of an English Placement Exam (EPE) from 1998 to 2011 to provide evidence for both the appropriateness of the test scores interpretations and for a validity argument. Methods: Test performance data collected from 38,632 freshmen non-English majors from a university in…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Student Placement, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Gilks, Peter J. – Language Testing in Asia, 2014
The aim of this study was to determine whether large variations in the pass rates of different versions of the Taiwanese tour guides' English test were due to inherent differences in the difficulty of the tests. Rasch analysis software was used to measure the difficulty of all items on the 2009 and 2013 versions. It was found that the ability…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tourism, Guides, Language Tests
Yin, Muchun; Sims, James; Cothran, Daniel – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2012
Feedback to the test taker is a defining characteristic of diagnostic language testing (Alderson, 2005). This article reports on a study that investigated how much and in what ways students at a Taiwan university perceived the feedback to be useful on an online multiple-choice diagnostic English grammar test, both in general and by students of…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes, Grammar, Language Tests
Shih, Chih-Min – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2008
Since 2000, the General English Proficiency Test, a newly developed test of English, has been phased in by the Language Training and Testing Center in Taiwan. It has become the most universally used test of English in Taiwan, a fact that can be evidenced by its aggregate number of registered test takers. This article first describes the…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Grading, Foreign Countries, Language Proficiency
