Quantitative Data Analysis For Language Assessment Volume I

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Quantitative Data Analysis for Language Assessment Volume I: Fundamental Techniques is a resource book that presents the most fundamental techniques of quantitative data analysis in the field of language assessment. Each chapter provides an accessible explanation of the selected technique, a review of language assessment studies that have used the technique, and finally, an example of an authentic study that uses the technique. Readers also get a taste of how to apply each technique through the help of supplementary online resources that include sample data sets and guided instructions. Language assessment students, test designers, and researchers should find this a unique reference as it consolidates theory and application of quantitative data analysis in language assessment.

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Genre : Education
Author : Vahid Aryadoust
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2019-03-27
File : 272 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781351741231


Quantitative Data Analysis For Language Assessment Volume Ii

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Quantitative Data Analysis for Language Assessment Volume II: Advanced Methods demonstrates advanced quantitative techniques for language assessment. The volume takes an interdisciplinary approach and taps into expertise from language assessment, data mining, and psychometrics. The techniques covered include Structural Equation Modeling, Data Mining, Multidimensional Psychometrics and Multilevel Data Analysis.Volume II is distinct among available books in language assessment, as it engages the readers in both theory and application of the methods and introduces relevant techniques for theory construction and validation. This book is highly recommended to graduate students and researchers who are searching for innovative and rigorous approaches and methods to achieve excellence in their dissertations and research. It is also a valuable source for academics who teach quantitative approaches in language assessment and data analysis courses.

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Genre : Education
Author : Vahid Aryadoust
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2019-07-04
File : 310 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781351741194


Quantitative Data Analysis For Language Assessment

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This book is a resource book that presents the most fundamental techniques of quantitative data analysis in the field of language assessment.

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Genre : Competency-based educational tests
Author : Vahid Aryadoust
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Release : 2019
File : 0 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1138733121


Quantitative Data Analysis For Language Assessment Volume Ii

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Quantitative Data Analysis for Language Assessment Volume II: Advanced Methods demonstrates advanced quantitative techniques for language assessment. The volume takes an interdisciplinary approach and taps into expertise from language assessment, data mining, and psychometrics. The techniques covered include Structural Equation Modeling, Data Mining, Multidimensional Psychometrics and Multilevel Data Analysis.Volume II is distinct among available books in language assessment, as it engages the readers in both theory and application of the methods and introduces relevant techniques for theory construction and validation. This book is highly recommended to graduate students and researchers who are searching for innovative and rigorous approaches and methods to achieve excellence in their dissertations and research. It is also a valuable source for academics who teach quantitative approaches in language assessment and data analysis courses.

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Genre : Education
Author : Vahid Aryadoust
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2019-07-04
File : 244 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781351741200


Sustainable Development Of Urban And Rural Areas

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Selected, peer reviewed papers from the 3rd International Conference on Civil Engineering and Transportation (ICCET 2013), December 14-15, 2013, Kunming, China

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Genre : Technology & Engineering
Author : Ya Fang Yu
Publisher : Trans Tech Publications Ltd
Release : 2014-01-16
File : 914 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783038263883


Emergent Literacy Development Among Latino Students In A Rural Preschool Classroom

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Author : Alicia Valero
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Release : 2002
File : 660 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCAL:X65227


Research Methods In Applied Linguistics

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This is a comprehensive overview of research methodology in applied linguistics which describes the various stages of qualitative and quantitative investigations, from collecting the data to reporting the results.

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Genre : Foreign Language Study
Author : Zoltan Dörnyei
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Release : 2007-07-19
File : 344 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCBK:C098645958


Applying Item Response Theory In Language Test Item Bank Building

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Item Response Theory, though it has become a widely recognized tool in language testing research, is still not used frequently in practical language assessment projects. This book intends to provide a theoretical overview as well as to give practical guidance concerning the application of IRT in item bank building in a language testing context by presenting a particular project in a higher education setting.

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Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Author : Gábor Szabó
Publisher : Language Testing and Evaluation
Release : 2008
File : 200 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015073927496


Applied Linguistics

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Genre : Applied linguistics
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Release : 2005
File : 656 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCAL:B5043574


A New Decade Of Language Testing Research

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Papers from the conference on language testing include: "Foundations and Directions for a New Decade of Language Testing" (Carol Chapelle, Dan Douglas); "A Comparison of the Abilities Measured by the Cambridge and Educational Testing Service EFL Test Batteries" (Lyle F. Bachman, Fred Davidson, John Foulkes); "Judgments in Language Testing" (J. Charles Alderson); "Testing the Specificity of ESP Reading Skills" (Thom Hudson); "A Comparison of Indices for the Identification of Misfitting Items" (Kyle Perkins, Sheila Brutten); "The Effect of Prompt in Essay Examination" (Mary Spaan); Computer-Assisted Testing of Reading Comprehension: Comparisons Among Multiple-Choice and Open-Ended Scoring Methods" (Grant Henning, Michael Anbar, Carl E. Helm, J. D'Arcy); "The Role of Instructions in Testing Summarizing Ability" (Andrew Cohen); "A Comprehensive Criterion-Referenced Language Testing Project" (James Dean Brown); "A Collaborative/Diagnostic Feedback Model for Testing Foreign Languages" (Elana Shohamy); "The Relationship Between Grammar and Reading in an English for Academic Purposes Test Battery" (J. Charles Alderson); "Assessing Speaking Proficiency in the International English Language Testing System" (D. E. Ingram, Elaine Wylie); "Performance on a General versus a Field-Specific Test of Speaking Proficiency by International Teaching Assistants" (Dan Douglas, Larry Selinker); and Is ESP Testing Justified?" (Caroline Clapham). (MSE)

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Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Author : Dan Douglas
Publisher : Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Incorporated
Release : 1993
File : 308 Pages
ISBN-13 : IND:30000035551682