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Crystal Uminski – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The landscape of undergraduate biology education has been shaped by decades of reform efforts calling for instruction to integrate core concepts and scientific skills as a means of helping students become proficient in the discipline. Assessments can be used to make inferences about how these reform efforts have translated into changes in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Biology, Science Instruction, Science Tests
Nusaybah Muhammad – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study examines and utilizes Critical Race Theory to understand how pedagogical training fails to train educators in recognizing and countering racism in standardized testing and General Equivalency Diploma (GED) preparatory courses. Black students continue to have the lowest pass rates in GED test performance based on a study of race and…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, African American Students, High School Equivalency Programs, Racism
Mohammed Ambusaidi – ProQuest LLC, 2022
There is an increased demand on nursing faculty to provide quality teaching and assessment. Nursing faculty are required to ensure accurate assessment of learning through testing and outcome measurement that are critical elements of the evaluation process. Likewise, nursing faculty should implement a logical evaluation system. However, the…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, College Faculty, Test Construction, Test Validity
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Laura Sperl; Clara Marie Breier; Eric Grießbach; Stefan R. Schweinberger – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
In response to COVID-19, universities worldwide experienced drastic and sudden changes including the need to shift to online teaching and assessment. Following previous research suggesting that individual differences in typing skills could influence text quantity and quality, we investigated whether university students' typing speed is related to…
Descriptors: Office Occupations Education, College Freshmen, Skill Development, Online Courses
Mattern, Krista – ACT, Inc., 2019
A great deal has been written on the topic of test validity. Guiding our work at ACT are "The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing" (2014), which outlines best practices in test development and validation. As ACT transitions from an assessment company to a learning, measurement, and navigation organization, a framework for…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Measurement Techniques, Evidence, Test Content
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Giordano, Michael J. – Language Teaching Research, 2023
In this quasi-experimental study, the effects of lexical coverage through pseudo word manipulation in dialogue comprehension are investigated. Forty-four first-year students in a Japanese university listened to five dialogues at different lexical coverage levels: 98%, 95%, 90%, 85%, and 83%. The results of the comprehension tests confirm the…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Listening Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Bryn Harris; Miriam E. Thompson; Lindsay Fallon; Amanda L. Sullivan – National Association of School Psychologists, 2023
This commentary provides an external perspective on NASP's first public report on racial and ethnic differences in Praxis outcomes. These data demonstrate racial disparities in pass rates but do not provide information regarding the causes of these disparities. This report underscores the need for expanded public reporting of Praxis data in order…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Gender Differences, Scores, Equal Education
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Chen, Michelle Y.; Flasko, Jennifer J. – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2020
Seeking evidence to support content validity is essential to test validation. This is especially the case in contexts where test scores are interpreted in relation to external proficiency standards and where new test content is constantly being produced to meet test administration and security demands. In this paper, we describe a modified…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Tests, Language Tests, English (Second Language)
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Taladngoen, Unaree; Esteban, Reuben H. – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
Distractors in tests are included to divert attention away from correct answers choices. Knowing what types of distractors commonly appear in tests will benefit test takers as they can prepare themselves beforehand. Therefore, this qualitative study was aimed at making assumptions on plausible lexical distractors which are expected to appear in…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension Tests, English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning
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Papageorgiou, Spiros; Manna, Venessa F. – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2021
The TOEFL iBT test was introduced in 2005 to better reflect the language demands of real-life academic tasks than did previous versions of the test. The task-based design of the test was intended to support the interpretation of its scores as a trustworthy measure of international students' ability to use English in an academic environment. Until…
Descriptors: Academic Language, COVID-19, Pandemics, Scores
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Nguyen, Huu Thanh Minh – International Journal of Language Testing, 2022
Combining Bachman's (1990) conceptualization of content validity with Messick's (1989) unifying model of construct validity, this study attempted to fill the gap in researching content validation in the context of a university reading achievement test by (a) examining traditional content validity evidence and (b) analyzing the test scores to…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Reading Tests, Achievement Tests, Majors (Students)
Bailey, Alison L.; Wolf, Mikyung Kim; Ballard, Laura – Educational Testing Service, 2022
The research note focuses on the alignment aspect of English language proficiency (ELP) assessments, one of the required types of validity evidence for the federal peer review process of states' assessment systems. A basic tenant of current U.S. education policy is the alignment between what a test assesses and what content has been determined as…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Alignment (Education)
Papageorgiou, Spiros; Xu, Xiaoqiu; Timpe-Laughlin, Veronika; Dugdale, Deborah M. – Educational Testing Service, 2020
The purpose of this study is to examine the appropriateness of using the "TOEFL Primary®" tests to evaluate the language abilities of students learning English as a foreign language (EFL) through an online-delivered curriculum, the VIPKid Major Course (MC). Data include student test scores on the TOEFL Primary Listening and Reading tests…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Wolkowitz, Amanda A.; Davis-Becker, Susan L.; Gerrow, Jack D. – Journal of Applied Testing Technology, 2016
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of a cheating prevention strategy employed for a professional credentialing exam that involved releasing over 7,000 active and retired exam items. This study evaluated: 1) If any significant differences existed between examinee performance on released versus non-released items; 2) If item…
Descriptors: Cheating, Test Content, Test Items, Foreign Countries
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Clauser, Jerome C.; Hambleton, Ronald K.; Baldwin, Peter – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2017
The Angoff standard setting method relies on content experts to review exam items and make judgments about the performance of the minimally proficient examinee. Unfortunately, at times content experts may have gaps in their understanding of specific exam content. These gaps are particularly likely to occur when the content domain is broad and/or…
Descriptors: Scores, Item Analysis, Classification, Decision Making
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