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All fields Title Creator / Publisher Keyword Year AND OR AND NOT All fields Title Creator / Publisher Keyword Year AND OR AND NOT All fields Title Creator / Publisher Keyword Year AND OR AND NOT All fields Title Creator / Publisher Keyword Year AND OR AND NOT All fields Title Creator / Publisher Keyword Year Sort by creator [A → Z]' creator [Z → A]' publishing year ↑ (asc)' publishing year ↓ (desc)' title [A → Z]' title [Z → A]' Simple Search Page: 1 2 3 Hits 21 – 40 of 52 21 various_abdul_01 ; A grammar of Kalamang, an endangered Papuan language Eline Visser; Abdul Yarkuran. - : Eline Visser, 2015 BASE Show details 22 The effect of an unfamiliar accent on typically developing children’s comprehension of spoken sentences Allen, Éadaoin; O'Leary, Deirdre; Gibbon, Fiona E.. - : Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists (IASLT); J&R Press Ltd., 2015 BASE Show details 23 Examination of the appropriateness of using standardized test scores for English as a second language (ESL) placement Kokhan, Kateryna. - 2014 Abstract: The primary purpose of this multi-paper dissertation was to examine the appropriateness of using standardized test scores for making ESL placement decisions within the context of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The dissertation consists of an introductory chapter, four manuscript papers, and a concluding chapter. In the first paper, a survey of the current English proficiency requirements in the U.S. universities with very high research activity (Research Universities / Very High [research activity] -- RU/VH) was performed in order to get a general idea about standardized test requirements that international applicants must satisfy in order to be admitted to the university. The results of the survey showed that the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) are most widely accepted tests. However, the RU/VHs significantly differed in terms of score requirements for admission. A substantial difference was also observed between test score requirements for admission to undergraduate and graduate programs. The conditions for waiver from the English proficiency requirement differed greatly from university to university. In this author’s view, “marketization” of higher education might be one of the strongest reasons triggering variety and complexity of the English proficiency policies at the RU/VHs. The results of the subsequent three independent research projects (Kokhan, 2012; Kokhan, 2013; Kokhan & Lin, submitted) that were included into this dissertation provided solid research evidence to conclude that standardized language proficiency tests would not be suitable for ESL placement. The results from the second paper (Kokhan, 2012) suggested that there was no particular set of either total or section TOEFL iBT scores which can be used as a reliable criterion for placing students into ESL classes without significant misplacement. This finding was further corroborated in the third paper (Kokhan, 2013) that examined the appropriateness of using standardized tests for placement of undergraduate international students into the ESL writing courses. A distinct pattern of fluctuations of correlation between the TOEFL iBT and the English Placement Test (EPT) over time was also observed (Kokhan, 2012). The correlation was stronger when the time gap between these tests was short but it dramatically decreased and even became slightly negative around Week 50; however, starting from the 50th week it increased. Language attrition was highlighted in the paper as the main factor contributing to this pattern of correlation. Kokhan’s (2013) study showed that using language sections of such tests as the SAT and ACT would not be effective for ESL placement of undergraduate students either. Exploratory data analysis demonstrated that only the lowest SAT reading and ACT English scores, and the highest TOEFL iBT total and writing section scores could separate the students between the two ESL placement levels. However, the number of undergraduate ESL students, who scored at the lowest and highest ends of each of these test scales, was less than 5% over the last six years. Thus, setting cutoff scores for such a small fraction of the ESL population may be impractical. For the majority of the undergraduate ESL population, there was about a 40% chance that they would be misplaced if the ESL placement decision were made solely based on the standardized test scores. Finally, the main objective of the fourth paper (Kokhan and Lin, submitted) was to examine which TOEFL iBT scores (official highest, most recent, average, or self-reported scores) were the best predictors of ESL placement. The findings showed that the self-reported and the highest TOEFL iBT total scores had the strongest association with the ESL placement results. The self-reported and the highest scores also demonstrated the highest classification efficiency in predicting ESL placement of TOEFL iBT repeaters. However, an additional analysis of the ESL placement trends in relation to the total highest, average, most recent and self-reported TOEFL iBT scores indicated that none of the four types of scores were suitable for making accurate ESL placement decisions since, in some cases, students with very low TOEFL iBT scores could be placed into the highest ESL level and students with very high TOEFL iBT scores could be placed into the lowest ESL level. The key findings, methods of analysis, limitations and suggestions for future research and changes of practice were discussed in the concluding chapter of the dissertation. Keyword: English as a second language (ESL) placement; English proficiency; Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/50752 BASE Hide details 24 Secreção na orelha média em lactentes ocorrência, recorrência e aspectos relacionados Saes, Sandra de O.; Goldberg, Tamara Beres Lederer; Montovani, Jair Cortez. - 2014 BASE Show details 25 Phonological remediation program in students with developmental dyslexia Salgado, Cíntia Alves; Capellini, Simone Aparecida. - 2014 BASE Show details 26 The role of memory in processing relative clauses in children with Specific Language Impairment Frizelle, Pauline; Fletcher, Paul. - : American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), 2014 BASE Show details 27 Raters' different judgments of intelligibility in the English placement test at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lee, Ji Eun. - 2014 BASE Show details 28 Beyond CTT and IRT: using an interactional measurement model to investigate the decision making process of EPT essay raters Wang, Xin. - 2014 BASE Show details 29 Is there a strong match between the construct of general proficiency in the minds of native speaker non-teachers and native speaker teachers? An exploratory study Gautschi, Curtis In: 93 (2013) BASE Show details 30 Justifying the Use of a Second Language Oral Test as an Exit Test in Hong Kong: An Application of Assessment Use Argument Framework Jia, Yujie. - : eScholarship, University of California, 2012 BASE Show details 31 Weighting Patterns and Rater Variability in an English as a Foreign Language Speaking Test Cai, Hongwen. - : eScholarship, University of California, 2012 BASE Show details 32 Weighting Patterns and Rater Variability in an English as a Foreign Language Speaking Test Cai, Hongwen. - : eScholarship, University of California, 2012 BASE Show details 33 Development of a language and communication screening test and identification of protective and risk factors associated with communication and language disorders Peixoto, Vânia; Sousa, Inês; Martins, Paula Cristina. - 2012 BASE Show details 34 Psychometric Evaluation of the Listening Sentence Span Task: A Working Memory Measure for English Language Learners Rios, Joseph A.. - : eScholarship, University of California, 2011 BASE Show details 35 Psychometric Evaluation of the Listening Sentence Span Task: A Working Memory Measure for English Language Learners Rios, Joseph A.. - : eScholarship, University of California, 2011 BASE Show details 36 Validation of an academic listening test: Effects of "breakdown" tests and test takers' cognitive awareness of listening processes Chi, Youngshin. - 2011 BASE Show details 37 Does performance on the ABLA test predict receptive name recognition in children with autism? Roy-Wsiaki, Genevieve. - 2010 BASE Show details 38 TOEFL as a prediction tool for placement into ESL writing courses at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Kokhan, Kateryna. - 2010 BASE Show details 39 Thinking in Chinese vs. thinking in English : Social preference and risk attitudes of multicultural minds Li, King King. - : Jena: Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics, 2010 BASE Show details 40 Exploring the complexity of second language writers' strategy use and performance on an integrated writing test through structural equation modeling and qualitative approaches Yang, Hui-chun. - 2009 BASE Show details Page: 1 2 3

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