Abstract The revived interest in the notion of ‘evaluative judgement’ higher education is motivated by commitment researchers and practitioners to effectively implement learning-oriented assessment cultivate this high-order cognitive ability develop students’ capacity for self-regulated learning. Recent studies have examined affordances constraints using exemplars evaluative judgement fields Ed...

This study considered the sociological explanation of critical thinking on teaching reading skill among young Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learners. For this purpose, 40 pre-intermediate learners, 19-30 years old, were chosen after administering a non-probability sampling design from classes at Foreign Language Institute in Babol. These 40 participants were randomly allocated to two groups (one...

To investigate the construct validly of a section of a high stakes test, an exploratory factor analysis using principal components analysis was employed. The rotation used was varimax with the suppression level of .30. Eleven factors were extracted out of 35 reading comprehension items. The fact that these factors emerged speak to the construct validity of the test. However the problem of over-...

the aim of this study was to investigate the role of linguistic and intelligence factors in the iranian ielts candidates’ speaking performance. linguistic factors include depth and breadth of vocabulary knowledge as well as grammar knowledge. narrative and verbal intelligences represent the non-linguistic factors. the participants included 329 learners who took 5 validated tests and also partic...

washback refers to the influence of a test on teaching and learning. this study was an attempt to compare the influence of ielts and toefl ibt on the expectations the students brought to their courses and to investigate how these expectations were fulfilled. to this end, 100 ielts and 120 toefl ibt students attending preparation courses took a questionnaire survey, and a sample of their ten cla...