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Sarah McCarthey; Jiadi Zhang – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2024
While recent research has examined cross-national curriculum and teacher preparation for second language writing, little research has investigated the influences of the pandemic and other social changes in preparing teachers to teach writing. The purpose of the study was to understand the preparation of teachers to teach writing, the factors that…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Social Change, Political Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education
Poch, Apryl L.; McMaster, Kristen L.; Lembke, Erica S. – Elementary School Journal, 2020
A small proportion of students do not benefit sufficiently from standard intervention protocols and require more intensive, individualized instruction. Data-based instruction (DBI) has a strong evidence base for addressing students' intensive academic needs, yet it is not widely implemented. In this study, we explored the usability and feasibility…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Evidence Based Practice, Writing Difficulties
Schmidgall, 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
Poch, Apryl L.; McMaster, Kristen L.; Lembke, Erica S. – Grantee Submission, 2020
A small proportion of students do not benefit sufficiently from standard intervention protocols, and require more intensive, individualized instruction. Data-Based Instruction (DBI) has a strong evidence base for addressing students' intensive academic needs, yet it is not widely implemented. In this study, we explored the usability and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Evidence Based Practice, Writing Difficulties
Eskin, Daniel – Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2022
For agencies that deliver high-stakes Second Language (L2) proficiency exams, a research agenda has been undertaken for years to examine the role of rater, task, and rubric as sources of variability into their performance assessments (Lee, 2006; Sawaki & Sinharay, 2013; Xi, 2007; Xi & Mollaun, 2006). However, these challenges are more…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Placement
Allen, Abigail A.; Lembke, Erica S. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2022
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of a morphological awareness intervention on the spelling and writing of second-grade (n = 16) and third-grade (n = 10) students at risk for learning disabilities. The intervention was provided for 25 min per session 4 to 5 times per week for 5 weeks. Students were randomly assigned to the…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Metalinguistics, Task Analysis, Intervention
Bekkar, Miloud; Ouerrad, Belabbés – English Language Teaching, 2021
This article considers some of the reasons teachers usually regard literature as an appropriate tool of language classroom learning. These of literary texts can be a powerful pedagogic tool. This study describes some of the approaches to teaching literature and provides a rationale for integrating the teaching of literature as an approach to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Literacy Education, Reading Tests, Foreign Countries
Nushi, Musa; Razdar, Mahshid – Cogent Education, 2021
The writing module of the IELTS has proven to be a challenging section for test takers. Part of this difficulty may stem from the divergence between what test takers expect to learn in such courses and what is delivered by instructors. To address this issue, a 24-item questionnaire (Student Questionnaire A) relating to IELTS writing preparation…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Tests, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
Valentine, Katherine A.; Truckenmiller, Adrea J.; Troia, Gary A.; Aldridge, Sydney – Grantee Submission, 2021
Understanding students' progress towards meeting grade-level expectations within an academic year is the goal of many education stakeholders so that they can make decisions to adjust instruction and improve students' learning trajectories. The purpose of this study was to explore 4th and 5th grade students' progress towards meeting expectations in…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 5, Writing Skills
Walker, Paul – Composition Forum, 2017
This article describes and theorizes a failed writing program assessment study to question the influence of "the rhetoric of agreement," or reliability, on writing assessment practice and its prevalence in validating institutional mandated assessments. Offering the phrase "dwelling in disagreement" as a queer perspective, the…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Writing Tests, Test Reliability, Program Validation
Wind, Stefanie A. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2017
Molenaar extended Mokken's original probabilistic-nonparametric scaling models for use with polytomous data. These polytomous extensions of Mokken's original scaling procedure have facilitated the use of Mokken scale analysis as an approach to exploring fundamental measurement properties across a variety of domains in which polytomous ratings are…
Descriptors: Nonparametric Statistics, Scaling, Models, Item Response Theory
Alemi, Minoo; Miri, Mola; Mozafarnezhad, Alemeh – International Journal of Language Testing, 2019
Although group dynamic assessment (GDA) has been gaining attention over the recent decade, its applicability in online context has been left rather underexplored. Hence, the current study examined the effects of GDA on developing EFL learners' written grammatical accuracy in the online context of 'Telegram'. To this aim, 60 Iranian EFL students…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Group Testing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Effatpanah, Farshad; Baghaei, Purya; Boori, Ali Akbar – Language Testing in Asia, 2019
Cognitive diagnostic models (CDMs) have recently received a surge of interest in the field of second language assessment due to their promise for providing fine-grained information about strengths and weaknesses of test takers. For the same reason, the present study used the additive CDM (ACDM) as a compensatory and additive model to diagnose…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Tests
Puranik, Cynthia S.; Boss, Emily; Wanless, Shannon – Grantee Submission, 2019
Research has established that self-regulation plays an important role in early academic skills such as math and reading, but has focused less on relations with other early skill domains such as writing. The purpose of the present study was to extend that line of research by assessing the relation between self-regulation and early writing.…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Self Control, Preschool Children, Kindergarten
College Board, 2023
Over the past several years, content experts, psychometricians, and researchers have been hard at work developing, refining, and studying the digital SAT. The work is grounded in foundational best practices and advances in measurement and assessment design, with fairness for students informing all of the work done. This paper shares learnings from…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Psychometrics, Computer Assisted Testing, Best Practices