Frances A Butler

Biographic Data

ID1585037
NAMEFrances A Butler
GIVEN NAMESFrances A
FAMILY NAMEButler
SIGNATUREBUTLER F A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Los Angeles
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS10
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • Deploying an Ethnographic Sensibility to Understand Climate Change Governance

    Lisa Vanhala, Angelica Johansson et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Politics2022Cited by: 1References: 31

    What can an “ethnographic sensibility” contribute to research on climate change governance? With its emphasis on meaning making and understanding what may lie beneath more obvious interactions and processes, ethnographic methodologies, particularly collaborative event ethnography, are increasingly deployed to address complex questions and achieve conceptual leverage on issues related to climate governance. Drawing on literature in climate anthrop…

  • Standardized assessment of the content knowledge of English language learners K-12

    Open AccessFrances A Butler, Robin StevensARTICLELanguage Testing2001

    Within the context of accountability for US schools, standardized achievement tests are being used for increasingly `high stakes' decisions for all students including those for whom English is a second language, even when their English language skills are not adequate for the task. This article discusses approaches to the standardized assessment of content knowledge for English language learners (ELLs),1 including testing in the student's first l…

  • Validating the revised Test of Spoken English against a criterion of communicative success

    Open AccessDonald E Powers, Mary Schedl et al.ARTICLELanguage Testing1999

    A communicative competence orientation was taken to study the validity of test-score inferences derived from the revised Test of Spoken English (TSE). To implement the approach, a sample of undergraduate students, primarily native speakers of English, provided a variety of reactions to, and judgements of, the test responses of a sample of TSE examinees. The TSE scores of these examinees, previously determined by official TSE raters, spanned the f…

  • Oral language assessment in the classroom

    Frances A Butler, Robin StevensARTICLETheory Into Practice1997References: 2

    1997). Oral language assessment in the classroom. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 36, New Directions in Student Assessment, pp. 214-219

  • The Settlement‐Orientation vs. the Problem‐Solving Style in Custody Mediation

    Open AccessKenneth Kressel, Edward A Frontera et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Issues1994Cited by: 9References: 10

    While empirical studies have generally demonstrated the value of mediation in divorce, little research has been conducted on the specific models of mediation that are most efficacious in such disputes. This article reports the results of an intensive analysis of 32 cases of custody mediation conducted at the Essex County (NJ) Family Court. One‐half of the cases represented predivorce parental disputes; one‐half were postdivorce disputes. Nearly h…

  • The relation of multiple-choice cloze items to the Test of English as a Foreign Language

    Open AccessGordon A Hale, Charles W Stansfield et al.ARTICLELanguage Testing1989

    Four categories of multiple-choice (MC) cloze items were examined in relation to the TOEFL. The object was to assess the factor structure of the TOEFL and the potential of distinguishing MC cloze items aimed at reading comprehension (defined in terms of textual constraints ranging across clauses) as contrasted with knowledge of grammar (short-range surface syntax and morphology) or vocabulary. Since it is impossible in principle to distinguish su…