Mary Schedl
Biographic Data
| ID | 8903194 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Schedl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Schedl |
| SIGNATURE | SCHEDL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Educational Testing Service |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Facilitating the interpretation of English language proficiency scores
The aim of this study was to develop, for the benefit of both test takers and test score users, enhanced TOEFL ITP ® test score reports that go beyond the simple numerical scores that are currently reported. To do so, we applied traditional scale anchoring (proficiency scaling) to item difficulty data in order to develop performance descriptors for multiple levels of each of the three sections of the TOEFL ITP. A (novel) constraint was that these…
Proficiency descriptors based on a scale-anchoring study of the new Toefl iBT reading test
Providing information to test takers and test score users about the abilities of test takers at different score levels has been a persistent problem in educational and psychological measurement (Carroll, 1993). Since the 1990s Educational Testing Service has been investigating solutions to this problem through the development of proficiency scaling procedures and questiondifficulty research. In 1997 a proficiency scale was developed for the Test …
Evaluation of an in-depth vocabulary knowledge measure for assessing reading performance
The central purpose of this study was to empirically evaluate an in-depth vocabulary knowledge measure in the context of developing the new TOEFL test. The study was carried out with a sample of 207 international students attending an intensive English as a second language (ESL) program in a major Canadian university, in order to determine whether this vocabulary knowledge measure could provide a basis for developing appropriate and useful item t…
Validating the revised Test of Spoken English against a criterion of communicative success
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…
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Validating the revised Test of Spoken English against a criterion of communicative success
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…
Evaluation of an in-depth vocabulary knowledge measure for assessing reading performance
The central purpose of this study was to empirically evaluate an in-depth vocabulary knowledge measure in the context of developing the new TOEFL test. The study was carried out with a sample of 207 international students attending an intensive English as a second language (ESL) program in a major Canadian university, in order to determine whether this vocabulary knowledge measure could provide a basis for developing appropriate and useful item t…
Proficiency descriptors based on a scale-anchoring study of the new Toefl iBT reading test
Providing information to test takers and test score users about the abilities of test takers at different score levels has been a persistent problem in educational and psychological measurement (Carroll, 1993). Since the 1990s Educational Testing Service has been investigating solutions to this problem through the development of proficiency scaling procedures and questiondifficulty research. In 1997 a proficiency scale was developed for the Test …
Facilitating the interpretation of English language proficiency scores
The aim of this study was to develop, for the benefit of both test takers and test score users, enhanced TOEFL ITP ® test score reports that go beyond the simple numerical scores that are currently reported. To do so, we applied traditional scale anchoring (proficiency scaling) to item difficulty data in order to develop performance descriptors for multiple levels of each of the three sections of the TOEFL ITP. A (novel) constraint was that these…
Computer Science (4 works) · Mathematics education (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Language assessment (3 works) · Language proficiency (3 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (3 works) · Test of English as a Foreign Language (3 works) · Educational Technology and Assessment (2 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works)