Meaningful Language Test Scores: Research to enhance score interpretation
Edited by Spiros Papageorgiou and Venessa F. Manna
[Innovations in Language Learning and Assessment, 1] 2023. x, 172 pp.
Spiros Papageorgiou
List of John Benjamins publications for which Spiros Papageorgiou plays a role.
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Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching
2023 Chapter 4. Statistical methodology for developing vertical scales for language tests Meaningful Language Test Scores: Research to enhance score interpretation, Papageorgiou, Spiros and Venessa F. Manna (eds.), pp. 61–77 | Chapter
This chapter is the last of the three chapters that describe the process of design and implementation of a vertical linking project for language tests based on a multi-year project for the TOEFL® Family of Assessments. The chapter focuses on the statistical methodology for developing the… read more
2023 Chapter 8. Designing and executing a score concordance study to establish score mapping to proficiency levels Meaningful Language Test Scores: Research to enhance score interpretation, Papageorgiou, Spiros and Venessa F. Manna (eds.), pp. 141–155 | Chapter
The TOEFL ProPlacer® test is a multistage adaptive test (MST) designed to rapidly distinguish among learners at different proficiency levels and to place them into English instruction courses that best suit their learning needs. The project reported in this chapter aimed to establish the mapping… read more
2023 Chapter 1. Overview of research to enhance score interpretation Meaningful Language Test Scores: Research to enhance score interpretation, Papageorgiou, Spiros and Venessa F. Manna (eds.), pp. 1–11 | Chapter
The primary motivation for administering a language test is to use its scores to facilitate decisions of various kinds about language proficiency. Score-based decisions can be extremely consequential, both for test takers but also for test score users, such as universities and employers, and… read more
2023 Chapter 3. Assessment design issues in developing vertical scales for language tests Meaningful Language Test Scores: Research to enhance score interpretation, Papageorgiou, Spiros and Venessa F. Manna (eds.), pp. 35–60 | Chapter
To support decisions about readiness to take a test in the TOEFL® Family of Assessments, a multi-year project was launched in 2017 to explore the possibility of expressing scores across multiple tests on a single, consistently interpreted scale by applying vertical linking procedures. This… read more
2023 Chapter 5. Scale anchoring methodology for developing revised performance level descriptors for the TOEFL iBT® test Meaningful Language Test Scores: Research to enhance score interpretation, Papageorgiou, Spiros and Venessa F. Manna (eds.), pp. 80–98 | Chapter
A scale anchoring approach (Beaton & Allen, 1992) was initially used to develop empirically-based listening and reading performance descriptors for the TOEFL iBT® test, to help interpret scores. To further facilitate score interpretation, scores were also mapped to the Common European Framework… read more