Improving the Psychometric, Criterion-Referenced, and Practical Qualities of Integrative Language Tests

1982 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary A. Cziko
Keyword(s):  
Language Tests ◽  
Criterion Referenced ◽  
Psychometric Criterion ◽  
Integrative Language

scholarly journals LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT IN EDUCATION: TESTS, CURRICULA, AND TEACHING

2009 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 90-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alister Cumming
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Language Assessment ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Language Tests ◽  
The Status ◽  
Criterion Referenced ◽  
Curriculum Policies ◽  
Program Accountability

Over the past decade, many concerted policy efforts have aimed to change the status and functions of language assessment in school systems or higher education, redefining relationships among language tests, curriculum policies, and classroom teaching practices. Conventionally, formal language tests describe individual proficiency levels in reference to normative standards for purposes of certifying abilities; screening applicants for higher education, employment, or immigration decisions; or monitoring the results of educational systems. Recently, many curriculum policies have been reconceptualized in reference to attainment or benchmark standards that specify (usually functional, communicative) goals for language education, learners' achievements, and program accountability. These innovations have adopted principles of criterion-referenced rather than norm-referenced assessment, creating new relations (as well as dilemmas) between language assessment and new curriculum policies, highlighting the nature of language assessment practices in programs, classrooms, or other learning contexts, particularly the foundation bases for defining language proficiency, alignment between assessments and curricula, the formative purposes of assessment in pedagogy, and the situations and interests of particular learner populations.

A Comparison of Four Adolescent Language Tests

1987 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 250-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Jane Lieberman ◽  
Ann Marie C. Heffron ◽  
Stephanie J. West ◽  
Edward C. Hutchinson ◽  
Thomas W. Swem
Keyword(s):  
Test Performance ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Significant Discrepancy ◽  
Language Impaired ◽  
Language Functions ◽  
Language Tests ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Sixth Grade Students ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
Selection Of

Four recently developed adolescent language tests, the Fullerton Test for Adolescents (FLTA), the Test of Adolescent Language (TOAL), the Clinical Evaluation of Language Functions (CELF), and the Screening Test of Adolescent Language (STAL), were compared to determine: (a) whether they measured the same language skills (content) in the same way (procedures); and (b) whether students performed similarly on each of the tests. First, respective manuals were reviewed to compare selection of subtest content areas and subtest procedures. Then, each of the tests was administered according to standardized procedures to 30 unselected sixth-grade students. Despite apparent differences in test content and procedures, there was no significant difference in students' performance on three of the four tests, and correlations among test performance were moderate to high. A comparison of the pass/fail rates for overall performance on the tests, however, revealed a significant discrepancy between the proportions of students identified in need of further evaluation on the STAL (20%) and the proportion diagnosed as language impaired on the three diagnostic tests (60-73%). Clinical implications are discussed.

Criterion-Referenced Testing: Review, Evaluation, and Extension

1979 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur I. Siegel ◽  
Larry L. Musetti ◽  
Philip J. Federman ◽  
Mark G. Pfeiffer ◽  
Joel P. Wiesen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Criterion Referenced

Criterion-Referenced Assessment of Reading Competency for Personality Inventories

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica L. Byrd ◽  
Maile Monk ◽  
Elizabeth Leeper ◽  
Achilles N. Bardos
Keyword(s):  
Personality Inventories ◽  
Criterion Referenced
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