John A. Upshur

List of John Benjamins publications for which John A. Upshur plays a role.

Article

Turner, Carolyn E. and John A. Upshur 1996 Developing rating scales for the assessment of second language performanceThe Language Testing Cycle: From inception to washback, Wigglesworth, Gillian and Catherine Elder (eds.), pp. 55–79 | Article
The two most common approaches to rating second language performance pose problems of reliability and validity. An alternative method utilizes rating scales that are empirically derived from samples of learner performance; these scales define boundaries between adjacent score levels rather than… read more