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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"placement test"”.
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Examining maintained authenticity in a modified process-oriented English placement test
Attempting to create an authentic placement exam for a program using process-oriented writing pedagogy presents many challenges. Practitioners and researchers have debated both the nature of authentic assessment and nature of process-oriented writing for more than forty years. The University of …
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Peer feedback in an integrated, process-oriented ESL writing placement test
… interactional competence during paired speaking tests; however, to date not much has been explored with regards to the nature of peer interaction during a writing test. This study proposes to fill this gap in SLA and L2 testing research by examining the peer-review section of the English …
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Quality management and stakeholder accountability: Computerization of a mandate-driven placement test
… that needed to take the University’s ESL placement test, the UIUC English Placement Test (EPT), in order to accurately place students into appropriate ESL course(s) and to provide English language instruction to these students. Prior to the surge of 2008, the undergraduate EPT test-takers …
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Validity of the English Placement Test at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Proposal of a semi-adaptive local Chinese placement test: Design, development, and validation
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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Validation of a German Language Placement Test Based on a Modified C -Test Procedure
Results based on four pilot tests administered over the span of two academic semesters suggested that: (a) the modified C-test procedure delivered enhanced linkage to the department's curriculum, and (b) psychometric qualities such as reliability of test scores were not materially affected by the …
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Construct Validation of an Integrated -Approach EAP Placement Test Using Multi -Group Structural Equation Modeling
The research questions were tested using multi-trait multi-method (MTMM) procedures and multi-group structural equation modeling (MSEM) as the central statistical tool. A review of the statistical methodology of the MTMM procedures as a methodological contribution in literature preceded an …
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Needs assessment and formative evaluation in the development of a college level English second language placement test
Instructional design and test development models converged in the development of a valid placement test for college level students in English second language courses in Quebec. The realities of instructional design within the context of budget cuts and time constraints often result in the …
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Raters' different judgments of intelligibility in the English placement test at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
This study investigated raters’ judgments of test-takers’ intelligibility on Phase I of the EPT (English Placement Test), and how their various teaching experiences and different native languages affected their judgments. The EPT is administered to incoming international students whose TOEFL scores …
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The influence of lexical features on human rater's judgement of essay performance on local English Placement Test
… at Urbana-Champaign, 262 essays from the English Placement Test (EPT) were collected and holistically scored based on the EPT holistic profile-based rating scales into five profiles across three proficiency levels. Lexical features related to lexical sophistication and lexical diversity were …
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CAF across proficiency levels and profiles: an investigation of ESL student writings in an English placement test
This study was an examination of the predictive value of complexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF) across proficiency levels and profiles in second language writing. 150 ESL essays of international students registered at a North American university were analyzed using various CAF measures. Descriptive …
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An Empirical Investigation of the Validity of Secondary School Institutions Student Selection and Placement Test (Ssisspt) in Turkey
… study, increasing the number of items in each subtest, field testing the test items before using them in the operational test, equating the test forms from year to year, keeping the same number of items for primary content areas as well as for secondary content areas, and collecting further …
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Construct Validation of an Integrated, Process-Oriented, and Computerized English for Academic Purposes (Eap) Placement Test: A Mixed Method Approach
… improved essay quality, consequential validity, test fairness, and authenticity. Arguments in favor of the CEEPT came from six types of validity evidence. First, the qualitative data complemented the results of a correlation coefficient between CEEPT and first semester GPA. Second, the CEEPT is …
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Analyzing the influence of utterance fluency across assessed speaking profiles in the oral English placement test at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-03-01 without embargo terms
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Placing into Remediation and its Effect on Students' Perception of Academic Self-Efficacy
… and recommended future students prepare for the placement test using preparatory material before taking the placement test.|Keywords: self-efficacy, remediation, student perception, community college, placement test
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Learners' perceptions of language proficiency, language test-taking strategies and emotional regulation in a test-taking context: a case study in an Egyptian EFL context
… English language proficiency, identified their test-taking strategies and emotional regulation processes during test-taking and explored the relationship between test-takers' reported use of test-taking strategies and emotional regulation on the one hand and their performance on an English …
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Basic skill achievement factors as predictors of success in selected community college general education course
… and effects of New Jersey College Basic Skills Placement Test (NJCBSPT) scores and grades in basic skills reading, elementary algebra, and English/ writing courses with the students' success in selected college-level general education courses in an attempt to establish predictor variables. In …
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Opportunity or not: Race, Gender, Income, and Academic Success in an Open-Access College
… – grade point average, academic action, English placement test, and math placement test, and (c) number of quarters attended, and (d) transfer/graduation rate. The variables examined were applied to two groups, low income students and high income students. These variables were included with the …
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Charting a Path to Success: How Alternative Methods of Mathematics Placement Impact the Academic Success of Community College Students
Results indicated that an institutional placement policy prescribing placement by an examination of multiple measures consisting of placement test score and self-reported high school preparation resulted in student placement into higher-level mathematics courses with equal academic success when …
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