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Tyler John Aracena – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This quantitative research study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of quarterly assessments administered quarterly to students in a large school district in the northeastern United States and their impact on students' subject-specific corresponding Regents Examination Scores. The study aims to determine if a correlational relationship exists…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Language Tests, Adolescents, Language Skills
Jose Belda-Medina; Vendula Kokošková – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2024
This paper examines (1) teacher candidates' knowledge of recent migration trends and language accreditation policies, (2) their attitudes towards language testing for migration, and (3) changes in their perceptions after exposure to training and migrant testimonies. Conducted over two years (2021-2023), this mixed-methods study involved 395…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Knowledge Level, Teacher Attitudes, Language Tests
Walter Araya Garita; José Alejandro Fallas Godínez – Research in Pedagogy, 2024
The English Diagnostic Test aims to assess reading comprehension skills for first-year students at the University of Costa Rica. In 2022, this test consisted of four instruments with 55 items. Instruments were based on an academic reading, following the criteria B2+ or C1 level according to Common European Framework of Reference for languages.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Tests, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Diagnosis
Khaled Barkaoui – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2024
Many English-medium universities employ a compensatory model to establish cutscores on English language proficiency tests for student admissions. In this model, students can have different scores on different sections of the test provided their overall score meets the admission cutscore. This practice raises questions regarding potential variation…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Undergraduate Students, Language Proficiency, Profiles
Art Tsang – TESOL Journal, 2024
Despite scholars' advocacy of intelligibility over nativelikeness in the EFL education context, many learners still seem to favour standard British and American accents. However, comparisons across studies have shown some changes in learners' perceptions, suggesting a move away from standard accent orientation. This article reports part of a…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Dialects, Pronunciation, Student Evaluation
Timothy Doe – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Language learning activities involving time-pressured repetition of similar content have been shown to facilitate improvements in fluency. However, concerns have been voiced about whether these gains might be offset by reduced levels of grammatical accuracy. This descriptive study tracked the oral proficiency of 32 Japanese university students…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Yuya Arai – Language Testing in Asia, 2025
Language testing research has suggested that placement accuracy can be an important factor in the consequences of placement decision-making. However, previous studies primarily have used a one-shot teacher judgment of placement accuracy, suffering from a lack of students' perspectives of their time-varying experiences. The present study aimed to…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Student Placement, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Sofya S. Belova; Anatoliy V. Kharkhurin – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
This study aimed to adapt the Plurilingual and Pluricultural Competence scale (PPC) to the Russian-speaking population and to assess its psychometric properties. Five hundred and sixty-four undergraduate students from Western, Central, and Caucasian regions of Russia and Kazakhstan participated in the study. Internal consistency, factorial,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Language Tests, Likert Scales
Noboru Sakai – Journal of Educators Online, 2025
This study aims to investigate ChatGPT's ability to comprehend input from nonnative speakers, specifically those learning English as a second language, with Japanese speakers serving as the model population. The experiment examines how ChatGPT evaluates the difficulty levels of the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC), which is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Artificial Intelligence, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)
Xian Zhang – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2025
The current bibliometric study employed citation analysis and keyword analysis to perform a review of language assessment and testing. Based on citation counts and keywords, this study identified the recent trends/changes and the most influential regions, institutions, scholars, and publications in the field. In addition, the intellectual…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Information Retrieval
Umar; M Ibnusaputra; Abdul Kadir; Ardiyansah Yuliniar Firdaus; Hendra; Retnoningsih; Mei Indra Jayanti – Educational Process: International Journal, 2025
Background/purpose: The Merdeka Curriculum is an important aspect in the reform of Indonesian education in facing global challenges and industry 4.0. Its early implementation requires comprehensive analyses and evaluations to determine its effectiveness. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of elementary school students' learning styles…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Gender Differences, Indonesian, Educational Change
Kremmel, Benjamin; Harding, Luke – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2020
While scholars have proposed different models of language assessment literacy (LAL), these models have mostly comprised prescribed sets of components based on principles of good practice. As such, these models remain theoretical in nature, and represent the perspectives of language assessment researchers rather than stakeholders themselves. The…
Descriptors: Assessment Literacy, Language Tests, Stakeholders, Online Surveys
Schmitt, Norbert; Nation, Paul; Kremmel, Benjamin – Language Teaching, 2020
Recently, a large number of vocabulary tests have been made available to language teachers, testers, and researchers. Unfortunately, most of them have been launched with inadequate validation evidence. The field of language testing has become increasingly more rigorous in the area of test validation, but developers of vocabulary tests have…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Language Tests, Test Use
Estaji, Masoomeh; Banitalebi, Zahra – International Journal of Language Testing, 2022
The measurement of test-taking strategies and practices, mostly studied through qualitative methods, has been an important aspect of language testing and assessment research. The current study examines the test-taking strategies of International English Language Testing System (IELTS) test-takers and reports the process of designing and validating…
Descriptors: Test Wiseness, English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning
Fulcher, Glenn; Panahi, Ali; Mohebbi, Hassan – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2022
The present systematic review examines Glenn Fulcher's contributions, works, philosophy, and research in language testing and assessment. The data includes his published articles, book chapters, books and interviews (except the one in this special issue) relevant to language testing and assessment from 1987 to March 2022. This study is conducted…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Testing, Language Research, Oral Language