papers in language testing and assessment 2015

​VOLUME 4, ISSUE 1, 2015

Special Issue, Part 2: Assessing Language in Higher Education
Special Issue Guest Editor Kathryn Hill

Front Matter
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Articles

• International assessment and local contexts: A case study of an English language initiative in higher educatoin institutes in Egypt 
  Hanan Khalifa, Nahal Khabbazbashi, Samar Abdelsalam, and Mohsen Elmahdy Said. Cambridge English Language Assessment / Cairo University. 

• Accuplacer Companion in a foreign language context: An argument-based validation of both test score meaning and impact
  Robert C Johnson and A. Mehdi Riazi. University of Calgary in Qatar / Macquarie University.
• Using an English self-assessment tool to validate an English Placement Test
  Zhi Li. Iowa State University.
• DIF investigations across groups of gender and academic background in a large-scale high-stakes language test 
  Xiamei Song, Liying Cheng and Don Klinger. Georgia Southern University / Queens' University.

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VOLUME 4, ISSUE 2, 2015

Front matter

Articles

• Authentic interaction and examiner accommodation in the IELTS speaking test: A discussion
  Anna Filipi, Monash University
• Development of a Spanish generic writing skills scale for the Colombian Graduate Skills Assessment
  (Saber Pro)
  Ana Maria Ducasse and Kathryn Hill. RMIT University / La Trobe University
  
• Using corpus complexity analysis to refine a holistic ESL writing placement rubric

​         Jeremy Gevara, Pennsylvia State University

Research digest

• Towards improved language assessment of written health professional communication: the case of the Occupational English Test
  Ute Knoch, Tim McNamara, Robyn Woodward-Kron, Cathie Elder, Elizabeth Manias, Eleanor Flynn, Ying Zhang. University of Melbourne / Deakin University / Cambridge Boxhill Language Assessment  

Book reviews

• Exploring language assessment and testing: Language in action. Green, A.  
  Reviewed by Simon Davidson.
• Interaction in Paired Oral Proficiency Assessment in Spanish. Ducasse, A.M. 
  Reviewed by Chihiro Inoue. ​

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