High-stakes examinations enjoy widespread use as summative assessments in higher
education. We review the arguments for and against their use, across seven common …

This study aims to examine the relationship between reading comprehension and lexical
and grammatical knowledge among English as a foreign language students by using an …

Little research has been conducted to investigate the effect of analogy on third language
(L3, hereafter) reading comprehension though some experts believe that it has facilitating …

Recently, psychometricians and researchers have voiced their concern over the exploration
of language test items in light of Messick's validation framework. Validity has been central to …

This study was set to cross-validate a bilingual Persian-English version of the Vocabulary
Size Test (VST) against the monolingual English version and compare Iranian EFL learners' …

With increased use of constructed response items in large scale assessments, the cost of
scoring has been a major consideration (Noh et al. in KICE Report RRE 2012-6, 2012; …

The utilization of multimedia technology has given positive contributions in the
implementation of teaching listening. It provides the teachers with easier and more efficient …

With the rising concerns over the fairness of psychometric tests, Differential Item Functioning
(DIF) is increasingly applied in test development and use situations. Despite its widespread …

This study employed generalizability theory to investigate the impact of academic
background and gender on performance on cloze and reading comprehension …

Validity has been declared to be the single most important consideration in language testing
and educational measurement. Messick (1989) famously identified construct-irrelevant …