PAPERS IN LANGUAGE TESTING AND ASSESSMENT
VOLUME 4, ISSUE 1, 2015
Special Issue, Part 2: Assessing Language in Higher Education
Special Issue Guest Editor Kathryn Hill
Front Matter
Articles
Special Issue Guest Editor Kathryn Hill
Front Matter
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.
VOLUME 4, ISSUE 2, 2015
Front matter
Articles
Research digest
Book reviews
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
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Ana Maria Ducasse and Kathryn Hill. RMIT University / La Trobe University - Using corpus complexity analysis to refine a holistic ESL writing placement rubric
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.