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The relationships between test performance and students’ perceptions of learning motivation, test value, and test anxiety in the context of the English benchmark requirement for graduation in Taiwan’s universities

Language Testing in Asia, 2017
Backgound Having been influenced by the trend of internationalization of higher education, most universities in Taiwan have implemented an English benchmark requirement for graduation, which requires students to demonstrate their English ability at a ...
Jessica Wu, Matt Chia-Lung Lee
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Writing genres at the All-Russian Olympiad of schoolchildren in English

Вестник Самарского университета: История, педагогика, филология, 2023
The article deals with evaluating a written competition at the All-Russian Olympiad for schoolchildren, in particular, the features of the criteria for checking such a genre as a story are considered. We analyze the evaluation parameters that are used by
A. P. Gulov
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ChatGPT-4 and Italian Dialects: Assessing Linguistic Competence

Umanistica Digitale, 2023
The purpose of this study is to evaluate ChatGPT-4’s language proficiency in Italian dialects. At the outset, it is clarified what is meant by ‘language ability’ within the context of Large Language Models.
Silvia Lilli
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Language testing [PDF]

Language Teaching, 2002
02–180 Babaii, Esmat and Ansary, Hasan (Shiraz U., Tehran, Iram; Email: babai@saba.tmu.ac.ir). The C-test: a valid operationalization of reduced redundancy principle? System (Oxford, UK), 29, 2 (2001), 209–19.
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Language Assessment Literacy: Implications for Language Teachers

Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2018
Recently, the applied linguistics field has examined the knowledge, skills, and principles needed for assessment, defined as language assessment literacy.
Frank Giraldo
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Statistics for Classroom Language Assessment: Using Numbers Meaningfully

HOW, 2020
Large-scale language testing uses statistical information to account for the quality of an assessment system. In this reflection article, I explain how basic statistics can be used meaningfully in the context of classroom language assessment.
Frank Giraldo
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A multiple-choice test of active vocabulary knowledge

Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2012
Most researchers distinguish between receptive (passive) and productive (active) word knowledge. Most vocabulary tests employed in second language acquisition (SLA), such as the Vocabulary Levels Test (VLT) and Vocabulary Size Test (VST), test receptive
Jeffrey Stewart
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DARWINISM TESTED BY LANGUAGE [PDF]

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1878
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Fairness and Ethics in Multiple Choice (MC) Scoring: An Empirical Study

Journal of Language and Education, 2019
One among the main concerns of language testers in the design and implementation of tests is selecting the method of scoring for the tool used to perform the evaluation.
George S. Ypsilandis, Anna Mouti
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Validity and Classroom Language Testing: A Practical Approach

Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal, 2020
Validity and validation are common in large-scale language testing. These topics are fundamental because they help stakeholders in testing systems make accurate interpretations of individuals’ language ability and related ensuing decisions.
Frank D. Giraldo
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