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Direct linkChapelle, Carol A. – Language Testing, 2012
According to Kane (2006), the argument-based framework is quite simple and involves two steps. First, specify the proposed interpretations and uses of the scores in some detail. Second, evaluate the overall plausibility of the proposed interpretations and uses. Based on experience gained in developing that validity argument, Chapelle, Enright, and…
Descriptors: Validity, Language Tests, Test Interpretation, Test Use
Chapelle, Carol A.; Chung, Yoo-Ree – Language Testing, 2010
Advances in natural language processing (NLP) and automatic speech recognition and processing technologies offer new opportunities for language testing. Despite their potential uses on a range of language test item types, relatively little work has been done in this area, and it is therefore not well understood by test developers, researchers or…
Descriptors: Test Items, Computational Linguistics, Testing, Language Tests
Chapelle, Carol A.; Chung, Yoo-Ree; Hegelheimer, Volker; Pendar, Nick; Xu, Jing – Language Testing, 2010
This study piloted test items that will be used in a computer-delivered and scored test of productive grammatical ability in English as a second language (ESL). Findings from research on learners' development of morphosyntactic, syntactic, and functional knowledge were synthesized to create a framework of grammatical features. We outline the…
Descriptors: Test Items, Grammar, Developmental Stages, Computer Assisted Testing
Peer reviewedChapelle, Carol A.; Jamieson, Joan; Hegelheimer, Volker – Language Testing, 2003
Presents the design and validation of an English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) test for a commercial publisher. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedRead, John; Chapelle, Carol A. – Language Testing, 2001
Presents a framework that takes as its starting point an analysis of test purpose, and then shows how purpose can be systematically related to test design. Argues that the way forward for vocabulary assessment is to take account of test purposes in the design and validation of tests, as well as considering an interactionalist approach to construct…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Language Tests, Test Construction, Test Validity
