STUDIES IN LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT

VOLUME 13, ISSUE 1, 2024

Front matter

Articles

• Eyes on the ball: Teachers’ rating processes when assessing a national L2 speaking test through the lens of their scoring document
  Liliann Byman Frisén, Karlstad University
• Investigating the quality of source integration in an academic writing exam
  Amber Vanderwoude & Liubou Shefarevich, Second Language Testing, Inc.
• Validity argument of an Interactional Competence checklist: Perspectives and many-facets Rasch analysis
  Zahra Montasseri & Alireza Ahmadi, Shiraz University
• Economic return of English language proficiency: Do English proficiency scores predict employee income in China?
  Xun Yan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Ping-Lin Chuang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign & Cong Zhang, Shandong University
• Remote Proctoring in language assessment: Exploring the impact on test-takers’ scores and perceptions
  Radosveta B. Valkova, Lancaster University,
• Investigating level descriptors and their impact on validity
  Craig Grocott, University of Bergen, Eli Moe, University of Bergen & Norman Verhelst, Eurometrics
• AI language models: A breach of academic integrity in online language learning?
  Omer Ozer, Adana Alparslan Turkes Science and Technology University
• Comparing automated analysis and human analysis of hedging in academic texts
  Rachael Ruegg, Victoria University of Wellington & Pansa Prommas, Prince of Songkla University

Book review

• Innovation in Learning-Oriented Language Assessment. 
  Reviewed by Yue Sun & Dunlai Lin, Beijing Normal University​