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State of the art review : language testing and assessment (part two). [PDF]

, 2002
In Part 1 of this two-part review article (Alderson & Banerjee, 2001), we first addressed issues of washback, ethics, politics and standards. After a discussion of trends in testing on a national level and in testing for specific purposes, we surveyed ...
Alderson, J. Charles, Banerjee, Jayanti
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Educational cultural analysis of language assessment rubrics: a case study of Japanese language at a British University [PDF]

, 2020
The standard of language assessment is considered to be similar within the same country, but it actually varies from institution to institution even within the UK.
Winch, Junko
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Globalising assessment: an ethnography of literacy assessment, camels and fast food in the Mongolian Gobi [PDF]

, 2014
What happens when standardised literacy assessments travel globally? The paper presents an ethnographic account of adult literacy assessment events in rural Mongolia.
Bernstein B, Blommaert J, Bourdieu P., Bryan Maddox, Callon M, Fenwick T., Goodwin C., Goodwin C., Hambleton R, Hamilton M, Humphrey C., Kell C, Kirsch I., Latour B, OECD, Rizvi F., Sneath D, Waltz S. B.   +17 more
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\u27Computerized Profiling\u27 of Clinical Language Samples and the Issue of Time [PDF]

, 2012
This collection is a resource book for those working with language disordered clients in a range of languages. It collects together versions of the well-known Language Assessment Remediation Screening Procedure (LARSP) prepared for different languages ...
Long, Steven
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A Post-Positivist and Interpretive Approach to Researching Teachers’ Language Assessment Literacy

Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2020
The language assessment literacy of English language teachers has been one of the topics of discussion in the language testing field. In this article, I focus on the need to expand research constructs and methodologies to understand, in depth, the ...
Frank Giraldo
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The Input Matters: Assessing Cumulative Language Access in Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals and Populations

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children present several challenges to traditional methods of language assessment, and yet language assessment for this population is absolutely essential for optimizing their developmental potential.
Matthew L. Hall
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The influence of age at first regular digital device access on digital reading performance: the mediating effect of cognitive flexibility

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Younger generations are receiving their first regular digital device access at progressively earlier ages than previous generations on average, whereas disparities in their early digital device access are still being observed globally.
Jie Hu, Jingdan Hu
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Psychosocial Outcomes in Long-Term Cochlear Implant Users [PDF]

, 2018
OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this study were to investigate psychosocial outcomes in a sample of prelingually deaf, early-implanted children, adolescents, and young adults who are long-term cochlear implant (CI) users and to examine the extent to ...
Castellanos, Irina, Kronenberger, William G., Pisoni, David B.   +2 more
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Why and When Are Evidence‐Based Interventions Adopted in Paediatric Supportive Care? A Qualitative Exploration of the Determinants of Photobiomodulation Implementation

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Oral mucositis is a common and debilitating side effect of childhood cancer and stem cell transplant treatments. It affects the quality of life of children and young people (CYP) and places a strain on services. Photobiomodulation is recommended for oral mucositis prevention in international guidance but is poorly implemented in UK ...
Claudia Heggie, Kara A. Gray‐Burrows, Peter F. Day, Bob Phillips, Carl A. Thompson   +4 more
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Which User Interaction for Cross-Language Information Retrieval? Design Issues and Reflections [PDF]

, 2006
A novel and complex form of information access is cross-language information retrieval: searching for texts written in foreign languages based on native language queries.
Baker, Ballesteros, Ballesteros, Beaulieu, Belkin, Bian, Borlund, Capstick, Capstick, Chin, Demetriou, Dorr, Dumas, Dunlop, Eco, Ericsson, Gonzalo, Hackos, Harston, He, Hull, Koenemann, Levin, Levin, Lopez-Ostenero, McCarley, Mizzaro, Oard, Oard, Ogden, Ogden, Penas, Petrelli, Petrelli, Pirkola, Preece, Robertson, Salton, Saracevic, Snyder, Van Welie, Xu, Yunker   +42 more
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