Post-admission Language Assessment of University Students. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by John Read.
• Editors: Read, John
• Other Names: École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (France)
• Contents: INTRODUCTION: Some key issues in post-admission language assessment by John Read -- Part I IMPLEMENTING AND MONITORING UNDERGRADUATE ASSESSMENTS -- Examining the validity of a post-entry screening tool embedded in a specific policy context by Ute Knoch, Cathie Elder and Sally O'Hagan -- Mitigating risk: The impact of a diagnostic assessment procedure on the first-year experience in engineering by Janna Fox, John Haggerty and Natasha Artemeva -- The consequential validity of a post-entry language assessment in Hong Kong by Edward Li -- Can diagnosing university students' English proficiency facilitate language development? By Alan Urmston, Michelle Raquel and Vahid Aryadoust -- Part II ADDRESSING THE NEEDS OF DOCTORAL STUDENTS -- What do test-takers say? Test-taker feedback as input for quality management of a local oral English proficiency test by Xun Yan, Suthathip Ploy Thirakunkovit, Nancy L Kauper and April Ginther -- Extending post-entry assessment to the doctoral level: New challenges and opportunities by John Read and Janet von Randow -- Part III ISSUES IN ASSESSMENT DESIGN -- Vocabulary recognition skill as a screening tool in English-as-a-lingua-franca university settings by Thomas Roche, Michael Harrington, Yogesh Sinha and Christopher Denman -- Construct refinement in tests of academic literacy by Albert Weideman, Rebecca Patterson and Anna Pot -- Telling the story of a test: The Test of Academic Literacy for Postgraduate Students (TALPS) by Avasha Rambiritch and Albert Weideman -- CONCLUSION: Reflecting on the contribution of post-admission assessments by John Read -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer International Publishing Imprint Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 243 pages 23 illustrations, 14 illustrations in color.)
• Subjects: 407.1; Education; Language and education; Tax assessment; Education, Higher; Language and languages -- Ability testing; Language and languages; Educational tests and measuremen; Education; Language Education; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation; Higher Education; Education; Education, Higher; Language and education; Language and languages -- Ability testing; Tax assessment; Education -- Evaluation; Education -- Higher; Examinations & assessment; Higher & further education, tertiary education; Education -- Language Experience Approach; Language teaching & learning (other than ELT); Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 3319391925; 9783319391922
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.; Note: Print version record.
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