During the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers experienced a significant shift in learning context from offline to online learning. Various studies suggest that teachers, particularly beginning problems accommodating student teaching activities during Consequently, early-career need enhance their understanding and skills maximize role as effective teachers. Therefore, this community empowerment program...

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...

the purpose of this research was to analyze efl writing tasks in the most popular esol (english for speakers of other languages) exam preparation courses in iran: ielts, toefl, fce and cae. having collected the criteria of writing task appropriateness in light of the process-oriented approach to writing instruction, 114 learner participants were asked to rate efl writing tasks based on a checkl...

This mixed-methods design study investigated Iranian TOEFL iBT and IELTS teachers’ views on thestructure of the TOEFL iBT and IELTS receptive and productive sections from the yardsticks of dynamic and static assessment. It also examined the conformity level of the receptive and productive sections of TOEFL iBT and IELTS to dynamic assessment and static assessment standards. To achieve the objec...

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...

the purpose of this research was to analyze efl writing tasks in two of the most popular english for speakers of other languages (esol) exam preparation courses in iran, namely ielts and toefl. having collected the criteria of writing task appropriateness in light of the process-oriented approach to writing instruction, we asked 60 learner participants to rate efl writing tasks in 3 ielts and 3...

This study investigated the frequently used language learning strategies (LLS) by Indonesian learners in English for a high-stakes exam, IELTS. In addition, differences LLS use among participants with different proficiency were examined. Using quantitative approach, data collected using an online survey utilizing Oxford’s Strategy Inventory Language Learning (SILL) as instrument. Sixty-one adul...