Building an<i>Assessment Use Argument</i>for sign language: the BSL Nonsense Sign Repetition Test

Mann, Wolfgang; Marshall, Chloë

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“…A subset of participants was administered the NWR twice (with an interval of 12-16 months). The task is an adaptation of (and therefore followed the guidelines and tested the constructs articulated in) Mann & Marshall (2010), originally created for British Sign Language but since adapted for other languages as well. As in the BSL task, participants were required to repeat items contrasting along one of the articulatory dimensions.…”

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Acquisition of phonology in child Icelandic Sign Language: Unique findings

Koulidobrova

Ivanova

2020

Proc Ling Soc Amer

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Research shows that acquisition of sign language phonology is a developmental process and involves multiple articulatory cues. Among these cues, handshape has been shown to be crucial and orientation has been argued to be potentially disregardable as being internal to sign production rather than encoding a minimal contrast. We administered a non-word repetition task and a picture naming task to 17 (age 3-15) deaf and hard-of-hearing signers of Icelandic Sign Language (ÍTM)-an endangered indigenous language of the Deaf community in Iceland-targeting the same articulatory features. The tasks were modeled after similar assessment tools for other languages. All of the participants use ÍTM for daily activities at school and at home; the vast majority were early learners (before 36ms). Results show an upward trajectory in the non-word repetition task scores but without a ceiling effect. Contrary to predictions, no effect of handshape was observed. Instead, on both pseudo-and real-word tasks, the majority of errors were in orientation/mirroring. The results suggest that orientation plays a non-trivial role in acquisition of sign language phonology.

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“…& Baddeley 1990, i.a. ), in DHH children, success on such a task predicts success on other language measures (Mann Marshall 2010, Enns & Herman 2011, Allen & Enns 2013. In this paper, we follow suit.…”

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Acquisition of phonology in child Icelandic Sign Language: Unique findings

Koulidobrova

Ivanova

2020

Proc Ling Soc Amer

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“…These critiques suggest that AUA model, which provides a framework for analyzing the validity and practicality of tests, has not been fully applied to DET. The AUA offers an explicit logical structure for evaluating the links in the argument and makes explicit the relationship between the validity and utilization arguments (Llosa, 2008;Mann and Marshall, 2010;DeBarger et al, 2016). Despite limitations in accessing the content of the actual test due to copyright issues, this paper aims to evaluate the consequential validity and specific test performance in the official mock test with AUA model.…”

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Predictability of Duolingo English mock test for Chinese college-level EFLs: using assessment use argument

Ma,

Zhang

2024

Front. Educ.

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Online international language tests have been gaining popularity since the COVID-19 pandemic. This study explored the predictive ability of the mock test of Duolingo English Test (DET) for Chinese students. College-level EFLs (N = 42) participated in this study and completed the official online mock test. Through quantitative analysis, the findings demonstrated that mock scores were significantly correlated with TOEFL or IELTS results. However, given that the mock test scores are significantly lower than expected, the consequential validity needs further analysis. Using Assessment Use Argument in qualitative analysis, the study established the claim, warrants, evidence, and potential rebuttals regarding the consequential validity of Duolingo English mock test. With further analysis on test specification, the characterization of Target Language Use domain of DET reading test items were investigated. The results indicate that although the DET mock test is relatively more accessible, it needs modification to become more suitable for Chinese EFLs. Suggestions and limitations on Chinese students using DET and its mock test were also discussed.

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Development and initial argument-based validation of a scoring rubric used in the assessment of L2 writing electronic portfolios

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Building anAssessment Use Argumentfor sign language: the BSL Nonsense Sign Repetition Test

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Cited by 5 publications

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Acquisition of phonology in child Icelandic Sign Language: Unique findings

Acquisition of phonology in child Icelandic Sign Language: Unique findings

Predictability of Duolingo English mock test for Chinese college-level EFLs: using assessment use argument

Development and initial argument-based validation of a scoring rubric used in the assessment of L2 writing electronic portfolios

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