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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

open access: yesLanguage 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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A Critical Review of the Book Quantitative Data Analysis for Language Assessment (Fundamental Techniques and Advanced Methods) [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش‌نامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامه‌های علوم انسانی, 2021
Given the significant role of quantitative data in theory building in language assessment, the need for a book covering data analysis methods is strongly felt.
Rajab Esfandiari
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Med-HALT: Medical Domain Hallucination Test for Large Language Models [PDF]

open access: yesConference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 2023
This research paper focuses on the challenges posed by hallucinations in large language models (LLMs), particularly in the context of the medical domain.
Logesh Kumar Umapathi   +2 more
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Writing genres at the All-Russian Olympiad of schoolchildren in English

open access: yesВестник 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

open access: yesUmanistica 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]

open access: yesLanguage 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

open access: yesProfile: 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

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

open access: yes, 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 ...
Banerjee, Jayanti   +3 more
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A multiple-choice test of active vocabulary knowledge

open access: yesVocabulary 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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