Cognitive appraisal of individuals directs to the creation of an emotional response, which is related to emotional intelligence. The present study shows the presence of induced emotions as an unrelated factor on the construct of a TOEFL iBT reading test which can interplay with emotional intelligence for regulating the induced emotions towards reading passages. The present participants were 393...

In the work described in this paper we undertook a fundamental, proof-of-concept exploration of an unsupervised technique for extracting and representing word meanings, called Latent Semantic Analysis. In this paper we detail an implementation of LSA for the purpose of vocabulary acquisition and report preliminary results from testing it on English vocabulary tests akin to the Test of English a...

The test misgrading is treated in this paper as a stochastic process. Three characteristic values, the expected number of misgradings, the expected inter-occurrence time of misgradings, and the expected waiting time for the nth misgrading, are discussed based on a simple Poisson model and a hierarchical Beta-Poisson model. Regular tests for classroom teaching and the Test of Written English (TW...

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This report describes the implementation and evaluation of an automated statistical method for assessing an examinee's use of vocabulary words in constructed responses. The grammatical error-detection system, ALEK (Assessing Lexical Knowledge), infers negative evidence from the low frequency or absence of constructions in 30 million words of wellformed, copy-edited text from North American news...