Computer Adaptive Language Tests (CALT) Offer a Great Potential for Functional Testing. Yet Why Don't They?.

Meunier, Lydie E.

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ERIC Number: EJ497740

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1994

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Computer Adaptive Language Tests (CALT) Offer a Great Potential for Functional Testing. Yet Why Don't They?

Meunier, Lydie E.

CALICO Journal, v11 n4 p23-39 Sum 1994

Computer adaptive language testing (CALT) offers a variety of advantages; however, since CALT cannot test the multidimensional nature of language, it does not assess communicative/functional language. This article proposes to replace multiple choice and cloze formats and to apply CALT to live-action simulations. (18 references) (LB)

Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Assisted Testing, Evaluation Problems, Language Tests, Second Language Instruction, Testing Problems

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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