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An Overview of COVID-19's Impact on English Language University Admissions and Placement Tests
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Ockey, Gary J. – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic led to rapid innovation among language assessment developers who had to adapt their testing processes to address various restrictions from governments and institutions. This overview introduces some of the challenges and opportunities test developers grappled with during this period as well as introduces the six commentaries…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Placement Tests, Barriers
Stakeholder Input and Test Design: A Case Study on Changing the Interlocutor Familiarity Facet of the Group Oral Discussion Test
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Ockey, Gary J.; Koyama, Dennis; Setoguchi, Eric – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2013
Test takers should have a voice in testing practices (Mathew, 2004). However, when incorporating their input, systematic processes to ensure the validity of testing practices must be followed. Such processes allow for test development to be a more democratic process (Shohamy, 2001), without sacrificing the value of the resulting inferences made…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Stakeholders, Case Studies, Language Tests
A Many-Facet Rasch Analysis of the Second Language Group Oral Discussion Task.
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Bonk, William J.; Ockey, Gary J. – Language Testing, 2003
FACETS many-facet Rasch analysis software was utilized to look at two consecutive administrations of a large-scale second language oral assessment in the form of a peer group discussion task with Japanese English-major university students. Results are discussed. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Software, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Higher Education