ERIC Number: EJ1015155
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013-Sep
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CBM Progress Monitoring in Foreign Language Learning for Secondary School Students: Technical Adequacy of Different Measures and Scoring Procedures
Chung, Siuman; Espin, Christine A.
Assessment for Effective Intervention, v38 n4 p236-248 Sep 2013
The reliability and validity of three curriculum-based measures as indicators of learning English as a foreign language were examined. Participants were 260 Dutch students in Grades 8 and 9 who were receiving English-language instruction. Predictor measures were maze-selection, Dutch-to-English word translation, and English-to-Dutch word translation. Criterion variables were years of English instruction, school level, course grades, and scores on a standardized reading test. Different scoring procedures and time frames were compared. Alternate-form reliabilities ranged from 0.44 to 0.88. Significant differences in maze scores were found between school levels but not between years of English-language instruction. Correlations between predictor and criterion variables ranged from 0.19 to 0.79. A regression analysis revealed that a combination of maze and English-to-Dutch translation predicted English course grades better than a single measure alone. (Contains 10 tables.)
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Progress Monitoring, Secondary School Students, Second Language Learning, Test Reliability, Test Validity, Scoring, English (Second Language), Grade 8, Grade 9, Correlation, Cloze Procedure, Translation, Indo European Languages, Language Tests, Language Proficiency, Multiple Choice Tests, Foreign Countries, Regression (Statistics)
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Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
Education Level: Secondary Education; Grade 8; Grade 9
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Netherlands
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