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The Effect Of Test-Taker Sex, Audience And Topic On Task Performance In Tape-Mediated Assessment Of Speaking, Tom Lumley, Barry O'Sullivan
The Effect Of Test-Taker Sex, Audience And Topic On Task Performance In Tape-Mediated Assessment Of Speaking, Tom Lumley, Barry O'Sullivan
Dr Tom Lumley
There is growing interest in the effect on candidate performance of characteristics of the interlocutor in tests of speaking. A range of variables associated with the interlocutor may cause systematic variation in linguistic performance, and consequently in scores awarded. This paper hypothesises that there may be effects on performance attributable to an interaction of these variables; in the present study, the task topic, the sex of the person presenting the topic and the sex of the candidate. This investigated in the context of a tape-mediated test of speaking, where no interlocutor is actually present; instead, stimulus material is presented by …
Volume 14, Number 01, G. William Hill Editor
Volume 14, Number 01, G. William Hill Editor
Reaching Through Teaching
Full text of Volume 14, Number 01 of Reaching Through Teaching.
Brief 8: Graduate Preparation Of Student Affairs Staff: What's Needed, New England Resource Center For Higher Education, University Of Massachusetts Boston
Brief 8: Graduate Preparation Of Student Affairs Staff: What's Needed, New England Resource Center For Higher Education, University Of Massachusetts Boston
New England Resource Center for Higher Education Publications
The Student Affairs profession has changed significantly. Is graduate training keeping up? Do young Student Affairs professionals know what to expect once they get to campus? Members of NERCHE’s Student Affairs Think Tank met to discuss the relationship between graduate training and the workplace.
Who Owns Our Values? Back To School, John Strassburger
Who Owns Our Values? Back To School, John Strassburger
Publications
This is the sixth in a series of occasional papers about the challenges confronting students and what Ursinus is doing to help them enter adult life.
Bridgewater State College Factbook, Academic Year 2000-2001, Office Of Institutional Research And Assessment, Bridgewater State College
Bridgewater State College Factbook, Academic Year 2000-2001, Office Of Institutional Research And Assessment, Bridgewater State College
Factbook
No abstract provided.
Scholarship Unbound: Assessing Service As Scholarship In Promotion And Tenure Decisions, Kerryann O’Meara
Scholarship Unbound: Assessing Service As Scholarship In Promotion And Tenure Decisions, Kerryann O’Meara
New England Resource Center for Higher Education Publications
Scholars of higher education have long recognized that existing reward systems and structures in academic communities do not weight faculty professional service as they do teaching and research. This paper examines how four colleges and universities with exemplary programs for assessing service as scholarship implemented these policies within colleges of education. Case studies suggest that policies to assess service as scholarship can increase consistency among an institution’s service mission, faculty workload, and reward system; expand faculty’s views of scholarship; boost faculty satisfaction; and strengthen the quality of an institution’s service culture.
Common Data Set, 2001-2002, Office Of Institutional Research And Assessment, Bridgewater State College
Common Data Set, 2001-2002, Office Of Institutional Research And Assessment, Bridgewater State College
Common Data Sets
No abstract provided.