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Reliability and Validity in the GCSE Oral Examination.
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Richards, Brian; Chambers, Francine – Language Learning Journal, 1996
Examined open-ended production tasks in higher level testing in French-as-a-second-language courses in the United Kingdom. The article studied the effect of teachers' linguistic background, training, experience, and ability on their marking of students' oral language tests; the reliability of marking criteria; and the validity of assessing…
Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Foreign Countries, French, Language Fluency
The "Free Conversation" and the Assessment of Oral Proficiency.
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Chambers, Francine; Richards, Brian – Language Learning Journal, 1995
Discusses the use of "free conversation" in oral examinations. The use of "free conversation" to describe structured interviews where the teacher does most of the questioning and the candidate supplies most of the information is inaccurate unless the format of tasks can genuinely allow the exchange of previously unknown information. (CK)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Course Descriptions, French, Interviews
Oral Assessment: The Views of Language Teachers.
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Chambers, Francine; Richards, Brian – Language Learning Journal, 1993
Presents the results of a study of the reliability of teacher assessment of the oral examination at General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) for Modern Languages. Teachers' opinions of different types of marking criteria were collected through semistructured interviews after each teacher had assessed a tape-recorded free conversation task…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Data Collection, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods