Abstract In low-stakes assessment settings, students’ performance is not only influenced by ability level but also their test-taking engagement. computerized adaptive tests (CATs), disengaged responses (e.g., rapid guesses) that fail to reflect true levels may lead the selection of less informative items and thereby contaminate item estimation procedures. To date, researchers have developed var...

This paper investigates fairness in writing test scores terms of candidates who completed a either by hand or typed, on computer. The data for this large-scale comparability study comprise taking English language tests at four CEFR levels – B1 to C2 the period 2019–2022. were analysed via effect size differences and equivalence tests. Measured size, small amount difference was apparent obtained...

We present an automatic text generation system (ATG) developed for the generation of natural language text for automatically produced test items. This ATG has been developed to work with an automatic item generation system for analytical reasoning items for use in tests with high-stakes outcomes (such as college admissions decisions). As such, the development and implementation of this ATG is c...

This study compared two new formulations of creosote and one pigment-emulsified creosote (PEC) with a formulation of creosote that met requirements of the AWPA standard P1/P13 for creosote. Two softwood and two hardwood species were treated to four retention levels with each formulation. The four creosote formulations were evaluated by (1) soil-block test, (2) fungal cellar test, and (3) field ...

Short tests containing at most 15 items are used in clinical and health psychology, medicine, and psychiatry for making decisions about patients. Because short tests have large measurement error, the authors ask whether they are reliable enough for classifying patients into a treatment and a nontreatment group. For a given certainty level, proportions of correct classifications were computed fo...

critical language assessment (cla) argues that language testing is a form of social practice and an agent of cultural, social, educational as well as ideological agendas. as such this article scrutinized the power that different groups of people including, teachers, students and their parents own at the levels of developing, administrating and interpreting iranian university entrance examinatio...

This paper explores the practices of division in operation primary schools England response to pressures high stakes tests at age 10/11, known as SATs. Using data from interviews with 20 headteachers and information a survey nearly 300 heads, we argue that organisation pupils preparation for SATs involves 1) use grouping by ‘ability’ sets, despite increasing evidence disadvantages; 2) forms edu...

Test-based accountability is now the cornerstone of U.S. education policy, and it is becoming more important in many other nations as well. Educators sometimes respond to test-based accountability in ways that produce score inflation. In the past, score inflation has usually been evaluated by comparing trends in scores on a high-stakes test to trends on a lower-stakes audit test. However, separ...