wyszukanych pozycji: 13
Testing Lexicogrammar: An Investigation Into the Construct Tested in the «Language in Use» Section of the Austrian Matura in English
ISBN: 9783631865408 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book explores the construct of language in use, specifically as operationalised through different item types in the Austrian Matura (school-leaving exam). Empirical research on some of these item types is scarce. The author reports on a mixed-methods study. The theoretical frameworks employed are Purpura's (2004) model of language ability and Weir's (2005) socio-cognitive framework. The findings suggest that the tasks under investigation assess grammatical form and meaning at the sub-sentential and sentential level. Different item types were also found to target different elements of...
This book explores the construct of language in use, specifically as operationalised through different item types in the Austrian Matura (school-leavi...
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401,95 zł |
Testing ESL Sociopragmatics: Development and Validation of a Web-Based Test Battery
ISBN: 9783631653791 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Testing of second language pragmatics has grown as a research area but still suffers from a tension between construct coverage and practicality. In this book, the authors describe the development and validation of a web-based test of second language pragmatics for learners of English. The test has a sociopragmatic orientation and strives for a broad coverage of the construct by assessing learners metapragmatic judgments as well as their ability to co-construct discourse. To ensure practicality, the test is delivered online and is scored partially automatically and partially by human raters....
Testing of second language pragmatics has grown as a research area but still suffers from a tension between construct coverage and practicality. In th...
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285,47 zł |
Tasks and Criteria in Performance Assessment: Proceedings of the 28th Language Testing Research Colloquium
ISBN: 9783631584163 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume includes selected papers from the 28th Language Testing Research Colloquium, held at the University of Melbourne (Australia) in July 2006. The papers selected for this volume share a common theme that of performance . Not only do they focus on performance assessments of second or foreign language speaking and writing, but they also focus on the performance of the participants the candidate (or candidates) and the raters and the construction of that performance through the tasks and the assessment criteria."
This volume includes selected papers from the 28th Language Testing Research Colloquium, held at the University of Melbourne (Australia) in July 2006....
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252,33 zł |
Validating Analytic Rating Scales: A Multi-Method Approach to Scaling Descriptors for Assessing Academic Speaking
ISBN: 9783631666913 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 395 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book presents a unique inter-university scale development project, with a focus on the validation of two new rating scales for the assessment of academic presentations and interactions. The use of rating scales for performance assessment has increased considerably in educational contexts, but the empirical research to investigate the effectiveness of such scales is scarce. The author reports on a multi-method study designed to scale the level descriptors on the basis of expert judgments and performance data. The salient characteristics of the scale levels offer a specification of...
This book presents a unique inter-university scale development project, with a focus on the validation of two new rating scales for the assessment of ...
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466,90 zł |
Testing ESL Pragmatics: Development and Validation of a Web-Based Assessment Battery
ISBN: 9783631528365 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Although second language learners pragmatic competence (their ability to use language in context) is an essential part of their general communicative competence, it has not been a part of second language tests. This book helps fill this gap by describing the development and validation of a web-based test of ESL pragmalinguistics. The instrument assesses learners knowledge of routine formulae, speech acts, and implicature in 36 multiple-choice and brief-response items. The test s quantitative and qualitative validation with 300 learners showed high reliability and provided strong evidence of...
Although second language learners pragmatic competence (their ability to use language in context) is an essential part of their general communicative ...
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436,33 zł |
Language Testing in Austria: Taking Stock / Sprachtesten in Oesterreich: Eine Bestandsaufnahme
ISBN: 9783631749388 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 742 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book marks ten years of language test development and language testing research in Austria. Part I describes the development of large-scale tests at all levels of the educational system. The documentation covers German as the language of instruction for the majority of pupils, the so-called modern foreign languages English, French, Italian and Spanish, as well as the classical languages Latin and Ancient Greek. Part II brings together a considerable body of research which has been conducted in the course and the wake of the development and implementation of the new assessment philosophy...
This book marks ten years of language test development and language testing research in Austria. Part I describes the development of large-scale tests...
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646,30 zł |
Personality Differences and Oral Test Performance
ISBN: 9783631561713 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The book examines how individual differences in candidates levels of extraversion interact with facets which have been shown to affect scores obtained on oral performance tests. Three major studies are presented: the first is concerned with the individual candidate in the model; the second study investigates the role of the rater in the oral test process; the final study is concerned with the degree of interactivity required of pairs of candidates, each of whom also acts as an interlocutor in the performance of an oral test task. Results of the studies confirm that when an appropriate...
The book examines how individual differences in candidates levels of extraversion interact with facets which have been shown to affect scores obtained...
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344,06 zł |
Computational Text Analysis and Reading Comprehension Exam Complexity: Towards Automatic Text Classification
ISBN: 9783631656556 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book delineates a range of linguistic features that characterise the reading texts used at the B2 (Independent User) and C1 (Proficient User) levels of the Greek State Certificate of English Language Proficiency exams in order to help define text difficulty per level of competence. In addition, it examines whether specific reader variables influence test takers perceptions of reading comprehension difficulty. The end product is a Text Classification Profile per level of competence and a formula for automatically estimating text difficulty and assigning levels to texts consistently and...
This book delineates a range of linguistic features that characterise the reading texts used at the B2 (Independent User) and C1 (Proficient User) lev...
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423,69 zł |
Measuring Oral Proficiency Through Paired-Task Performance
ISBN: 9783631564967 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book intends to provide a theoretical overview of examining candidates oral abilities in different examination formats. In particular, it explores specific partner effects on discourse outcomes and proficiency ratings in the framework of paired-task performance. Two investigations, both set in the context of a proposed Hungarian school leaving examination in English, were carried out in order to contribute to a better understanding of the assumed impact of the chosen variables. Study One investigates discourse differences between examiner-to-examinee interaction and peer-to-peer...
This book intends to provide a theoretical overview of examining candidates oral abilities in different examination formats. In particular, it explore...
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301,92 zł |
Validity Evaluation in Language Assessment
ISBN: 9783631549469 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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466,53 zł |
International Experiences in Language Testing and Assessment: Selected Papers in Memory of Pavlos Pavlou
ISBN: 9783631621929 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 309 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This publication is dedicated to the memory of Associate Professor Pavlos Pavlou, a distinguished language testing and assessment researcher, ELT practitioner, sociolinguist and esteemed faculty member at the University of Cyprus. The chapters included in the volume, written by distinguished scholars, researchers and practitioners in the field of language testing and assessment, are papers selected from presentations made at the 1st International Conference of Language Testing and Assessment (ICLTA), which was dedicated to Pavlos memory. The conference was hosted at the University of Cyprus,...
This publication is dedicated to the memory of Associate Professor Pavlos Pavlou, a distinguished language testing and assessment researcher, ELT prac...
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387,22 zł |
Introduction to Many-Facet Rasch Measurement: Analyzing and Evaluating Rater-Mediated Assessments. 2nd Revised and Updated Edition
ISBN: 9783631656150 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Since the early days of performance assessment, human ratings have been subject to various forms of error and bias. Expert raters often come up with different ratings for the very same performance and it seems that assessment outcomes largely depend upon which raters happen to assign the rating. This book provides an introduction to many-facet Rasch measurement (MFRM), a psychometric approach that establishes a coherent framework for drawing reliable, valid, and fair inferences from rater-mediated assessments, thus answering the problem of fallible human ratings. Revised and updated...
Since the early days of performance assessment, human ratings have been subject to various forms of error and bias. Expert raters often come up with d...
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337,37 zł |
Applying Item Response Theory in Language Test Item Bank Building
ISBN: 9783631568514 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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485,51 zł |