37th annual conference (2011)

Challenges in Using Audio Recordings for Large-scale Listening Comprehension Examinations

August 2, 2018

37th annual conference (2011), Keith Lenden-Hitchcock

Being a multi-cultural society, Singapore has a bilingual policy where students are required to learn English language as the first language and their own Mother Tongue Language (MTL) to as…

International Comparison of Information Literacy in Digital Environments

August 2, 2018

37th annual conference (2011), Isac Froumin, Kirill Vasiliev, M. Zelman, S. Avdeeva, Tigran Shmis

Despite coming of digital technology age, many have struggled over the concept of a minimum information and communication literacy skills – locating, evaluating, and communicating information as an important outcome…

Characteristics of Raters: Reliable and Valid Versus Unreliable and Invalid

August 2, 2018

37th annual conference (2011), Amy K.M Cheung

&#160,This study used the multi-faceted Rasch model, classical statistics and verbal aloud protocols (VAP) to analyse raters&#8217, decision-making behaviours on a large-scale oral assessment, involving a stratified sample of 150…

Estimating Examinee Intrinsic Difficulty for Providing Greater Specificity of Feedback for Instruction

August 2, 2018

37th annual conference (2011), Bruce Kossar, Charles Secolsky, Eric Magaram

Intrinsic difficulties as opposed to proportion correct scores reflect judgments of what students perceive as difficult. By estimating intrinsic difficulties of items, instructors can gain a greater sense of student…

AN APPRAISAL OF CANDIDATES’ ACHIEVEMENT IN THE WEST AFRICAN SENIOR SCHOOLCERTIFICATE EXAMINATION (WASSCE) AMONG WAEC MEMBER COUNTRIES

August 2, 2018

37th annual conference (2011), Alhaja M. A. Bello, Dr Modupe Oke

The West African Senior School Certificate Examination(WASSCE) is the international examination conducted by the West&#160,African Examinations Council. It is presently written by candidates in four of the member countries. The…

Indigenised and Indigenous assessments in Nigeria: Opinion of teachers and students

August 2, 2018

37th annual conference (2011), Anthony Afemikhe, Emmanuel I. Anyanwu, Prof. Promise N. Okpala

Assessments involve collection of information for decision making within any context be it school or out-of-school. Within the Nigerian society assessments have tended to take western coloration following the introduction…

Marker ‘fatigue’ and marking reliability in Hong Kong’s Language Proficiency Assessment for Teachers of English (LPATE)

August 2, 2018

37th annual conference (2011), Dr. Neil Drave

An increasing number of examination bodies around the world are replacing paperbased&#160,marking with onscreen marking (OSM), a system in which marking is done on computers. OSM has been used for…

Standards, Standard setting and Accountability in the Netherlands.

August 2, 2018

37th annual conference (2011), Frans Kleintjes

Declining PISA results and disappointing results on Computer Adaptive entrance tests for teacher training result in a national initiative in the Netherlands to raise the level of student&#8217,s performance on…

Development of Science Test Items

August 2, 2018

37th annual conference (2011), Precharn Dechsri, Tanyakarn Yuentrakulchai, Wanpen Kamtet

IPST has responsible for improving quality of teaching and learning in Science, Mathematics and Technology, emphasis on K-12 levels. To achieve this objective, Standard andAssessment Department has been working on…

Using PAVES strategy to increase Primary Three students’ confidence in public speaking

August 2, 2018

37th annual conference (2011), Azlina Suhaimi, Jerine Heratnor

The purpose of this study is to find out whether explicit teaching of the mnemonic strategy, Posture, Attitude, Voice, Eye Contact, Smile (PAVES), to Primary three students increases their confidence…

37th annual conference (2011)

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