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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Language tests"”.
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Construct Validation of a Diagnostic L2 Listening Test: An Operational Model Utilized and Multidimensionality Issues Revisited
… new perspective to multidimensionality issues in language testing. It encouraged testing experts to revisit the issues of multidimensionality from the perspective of test users' views. It argues for the meaningfulness of test users' needs and wants to raise a potential shift toward …
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Traumatic brain injury : traditional and narrative assessment techniques
… executive functioning, as well as cognitive and language abilities of various degrees. Standard language tests currently focus on very specific language disorders and can not identify language disorders of TBI subjects with high-level language functioning. Although these standard tests can not …
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The Identification of Spanish-Speaking Children with Speech and Language Handicaps: An Analysis of Current Assessment Practices in Speech and Language Therapy Programs with Proposed Assessment Guidelines
… (1) to examine the procedures used by speech-language pathologists in identifying Spanish-speaking students with speech and language handicaps, (2) to determine the extent to which practicing speech-language pathologists are qualified to conduct these evaluations, and (3) to develop a …
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The adaptation of language testing models to national testing of school graduates in Nepal : processes, problems and emerging issues
… a contribution to knowledge about how ESL/EFL language tests may be adapted and applied in order to meet the system-wide needs for EFL testing in developing countries more generally.
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The relationship between children's tendencies in choosing comic books and certain other traits
… intelligence quotients, reading scores, and language scores. In attempting to carry out its purpose, two hundred seventh-grade children, attending three elementary schools in Wythe County, Virginia, were chosen as subjects for investigation. The manner of proceeding from that point has been …
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Using Ontology-Based Approaches to Representing Speech Transcripts for Automated Speech Scoring
… and Reuters).</p> <p>From the perspective of language assessment, the increasing amount of language learners taking second language tests makes automatic scoring an attractive alternative to human scoring for delivering rapid and objective scores of written and spoken test responses. This …
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Controle preditivo com número reduzido de estados aplicado a conversor multinível modular
… logic of the control system was programmed in C language. Tests were also carried out on an experimental prototype whose circuit refers to one leg of the MMC, and the results obtained confirm the model. In these tests the circulating current was not analyzed.
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The Association between Reading Comprehension and Prerequisite Skills for Children in Poverty
… the standardization sample on norm referenced language tests although the language tests would predict reading comprehension. Second, decoding would not be as good a predictor of reading comprehension for children from low SES backgrounds as it is in typically developing children from middle …
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BantuBERTa : using language family grouping in multilingual language modeling for Bantu languages
… were used. The resulting multilingual language model (BantuBERTa) from this pretraining data proved to be predictive across multiple Bantu languages on a higher-order NLP task (NER) and in a simpler NLP task (classification). This proves that this dataset can be used for Bantu …
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Development and Validation of a New Naming Task: The Southwestern Item Fluency Test (SWIFT)
Tests of confrontation naming play an important role in the clinical assessment of language. Commonly used naming tests have a variety of limitations including ceiling effects, outdated stimuli, differential item functioning across groups, and often ignore speed of word retrieval even though this …
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Central auditory processing disorders in minority children
… for children for whom English is a first language (L1). Consequently, children for whom English is a second language (L2) who are experiencing educational distress are excluded from the benefits of diagnosis and intervention for CAPD since their difficulties are usually blamed on their L2 …
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Standardization of Oral Cloze as a Language Assessment Device for Bilingual Hispanic Children
… the feasibility of oral cloze procedures as a language screening for bilingual Hispanic students. If such a procedure were normed, and proven to be both reliable and valid, the resultant assessment device would have potential screening tool as a for determining the presence of a language …
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Evaluating the Aural/Oral Skills of Children Identified by the Slingerland Pre-Reading Screening Procedures
… failare" (Slingerland, 1977). All of the subtests from the Pre-Reading Screening Procedures are cross-modality tasks because the testing of a modality, "Auditory" or "Visual", requires the use of one or two other modalities (motor or speech) to generate a response. In order to determine …
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AN EVALUATION OF THE LANGUAGE LEARNING OUTCOMES IN THE NEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CURRICULUM OF THE PHILIPPINES
… Curriculum (NESC) of the Philippines. Equivalent tests in English and Filipino were designed for this study. These were criterion-referenced, multiple-choice achievement tests based on the prescribed Minimum Learning Competencies. The tests comprised of the four basic language skills. The 65 item …
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The Effect of a Single Bout of Physical Exertion on Expressive Language and Word Finding in Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis
… the relationship between fatigue and expressive language among Multiple Sclerosis patients (MS). This study was a response to this knowledge gap. A nonrandom, matched- subject, mixed-factor design model was used with a purposive sample of 17 individuals with MS (five had primary-progressive (PP) …
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A Comparative Analysis of Tests for Central Auditory Function and Tests for Auditory Processing
… a relationship between the results obtained from tests of auditory language performance and those obtained from tests of central auditory performance. The performances of ten learning disabled children were compared with the performances of ten normal achievers on the six auditory language …
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Language differences between reflective and impulsive fourth grade children
… researchers concerning the relationship between language abilities and the reflective-impulsive dimension prompted this investigation. From a sample of 118 fourth grade children, 57 subjects were classified as reflective or impulsive using the Matching Familiar Figures test. Three measures of …
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The impact of implementing English proficiency tests as a graduation requirement at Taiwanese universities of technology
… at large recognise that a high level of English language ability among the workforce is essential for success in virtually all walks of life, as Taiwan is heavily dependent on international business for its economic growth. A growing concern for national standards of educational achievement in a …
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Implementing a cognitive diagnostic assessment in an institutional test: a new networking model in language testing and experiment with a new psychometric model and task type
… diagnostic models are empirically compared for language test data under a unified general modeling framework. The models are applied to three sets of data, TOEFL Reading, TOEFL Listening and ECPE Grammar and examined in terms of their model fit to the data and functioning. The item-association …
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Diagnostic Comparison Between Free Speech Samples and Imitation Tasks
… sample and imitation type task in analyzing language performance in kindergarten children. An analysis of the language performance of 15 children was completed. Their language ranged in severity from normal to severely delayed. The children were divided into three distinct subgroups; severely …
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