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Evaluating subscore uses across multiple levels: A case of reading and listening subscores for young EFL learners:
Ikkyu Choi,Spiros Papageorgiou +1 more
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This article argued that reporting a subscore is not always justified, and that the subscore should provide reliable and distinct information to be worth repurchasing, and not just to report a score.Abstract:
Stakeholders of language tests are often interested in subscores. However, reporting a subscore is not always justified; a subscore should provide reliable and distinct information to be worth repo...read more
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Assessing Young Language Learners
TL;DR: The assessing young language learners is universally compatible with any devices to read, and is available in the digital library an online access to it is set as public so you can get it instantly.
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Developing individualized feedback for listening assessment: Combining standard setting and cognitive diagnostic assessment approaches:
Shangchao Min,Lianzhen He +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the development of individualized feedback for a large-scale listening assessment by combining standard setting and cognitive diagnostic assessment (CDA) approaches, which is based on the work presented in this paper.
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A systematic review of item response theory in language assessment: Implications for the dimensionality of language ability
Shangchao Min,Vahid Aryadoust +1 more
TL;DR: This paper conducted a systematic review of the item response theory literature in language assessment to investigate the conceptualization and operationalization of the dimensionality of language ability, and found that exploratory factor analysis was the primary method of dimensionality analysis in papers that had applied unidimensional IRT models, whereas the comparison modeling approach was dominant in the multidimensional framework.
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Assessing Second Language Listening Over the Past Twenty Years: A Review Within the Socio-Cognitive Framework.
Lianzhen He,Ziyun Jiang +1 more
TL;DR: To understand the state-of-the-art research on L2 listening assessment, a total of 87 studies published in 14 peer-reviewed journals and two research report series between 2001 and 2020 were reviewed, using the socio-cognitive framework for developing and validating listening tests proposed by Weir (2005).
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