Titlebook: English Language Education and Assessment; Recent Developments David Coniam Book 2014 Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2014 China

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Scoring Fairness in Large-Scale High-Stakes English Language Testing: An Examination of the Nationalle research conducted in Asian countries such as China. Considering the extreme high stakes of large-scale testing in this context, this study examines what and how raters’ scoring decisions were affected by the features of writing intended (or unintended) to be measured in the National Matriculatio

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Putting Rater Confidence in Its Place: A Qualitative Investigation of Raters’ Perceptions on Using ,n of raters’ perceptions of using Confidence Scoring. The two approaches, Confidence Scoring and Traditional Scoring, were compared in terms of qualitative interview data of five raters to provide a fuller understanding of similarities and differences between the two approaches. The findings demonst

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Implementing Innovation: A Graded Approach to English Language Testing in Hong Kongnglish Language examination and places the development of the new qualification in the context of recent educational policy changes. The HKDSE was implemented in 2012 and is taken by students in Form 6 (Grade 12), after 6 years of secondary education. It replaces two qualifications, the HKCEE and th

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00589-5g materials. Some ad hoc theoretical concepts are presented, and the problematic relationship between language play and the much-vaunted but poorly understood concept of language creativity, and how to teach and assess it, is investigated. The chapter finishes with an evaluation of the success (or not) of the course.

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Book 2014 Hong Kong represent a mixture of established and new scholars. Areas covered in the language education section range across major developments in the redefining of Hong Kong’s secondary and tertiary curricula, as well as the huge field of China’s vocational education curriculum. Regarding assessmen

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68058-1he cost of a year’s further study, it does not translate into the gains many students had wished for as only one-third achieved the one-level gain in grade they aspired to. The study suggests that schools in the shadow education system may be promising more than they are able to deliver.