James Dean Brown

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Using surveys in language programs (2001) (717)
The Elements of Language Curriculum: A Systematic Approach to Program Development (1994) (690)
Testing in language programs (1996) (619)
Doing Second Language Research (2002) (534)
THE ALTERNATIVES IN LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT (1998) (425)
Understanding research in second language learning (1988) (365)
Choosing the Right Type of Rotation in PCA and EFA (2009) (344)
Understanding research in second language learning : a teacher's guide to statistics and research design (1989) (233)
语言项目中的测试与评价 = Testing in Language Programs : A Comprehensive Guide to English Language Assessment (2005) (232)
Developing prototypic measures of cross-cultural pragmatics (1998) (215)
Designing Second Language Performance Assessments (1998) (157)
Relative Merits of Four Methods for Scoring Cloze Tests (1980) (149)
Computers in language testing: Present research and some future directions (1997) (147)
A CATEGORICAL INSTRUMENT FOR SCORING SECOND LANGUAGE WRITING SKILLS (1984) (138)
Personality, Motivation, Anxiety, Strategies, and Language Proficiency of Japanese Students (1996) (128)
Criterion-Referenced Language Testing (2002) (125)
Foreign and Second Language Needs Analysis (2009) (110)
Statistics Corner Questions and answers about language testing statistics: Choosing the Right Number of Components or Factors in PCA and EFA Choosing the Right Number of Components or Factors in PCA and EFA (2009) (105)
Do English and ESL Faculties Rate Writing Samples Differently (1991) (95)
The Second Language Curriculum: Language program evaluation: a synthesis of existing possibilities (1989) (92)
Introducing Needs Analysis and English for Specific Purposes (2015) (87)
Examinee abilities and task difficulty in task-based second language performance assessment (2002) (87)
Language testing courses: What are they in 2007? (2008) (83)
A Framework for Testing Cross-Cultural Pragmatics (1992) (78)
Mixed Methods Research for TESOL (2014) (71)
Pragmatics in Language Teaching: Pragmatics tests: Different purposes, different tests (2001) (70)
Testing Spoken Language: A Handbook of Oral Testing Techniques (1989) (68)
Research Methods for Applied Linguistics: Scope, Characteristics, and Standards (2008) (67)
Open-Response Items in Questionnaires (2009) (66)
Improving ESL Placement Tests Using Two Perspectives (1989) (64)
An EFL Readability Index (1997) (64)
The relative importance of persons, items, subtests and languages to TOEFL test variance (1999) (60)
An Investigation of Second Language Task-Based Performance Assessments (2002) (60)
The Cambridge Guide to Research in Language Teaching and Learning (2015) (54)
Japanese language needs analysis 1998-1999 (1999) (54)
The Creation of a New Vocabulary Levels Test (2015) (54)
New ways of classroom assessment (1998) (52)
What are the characteristics of natural cloze tests? (1993) (51)
DO CLOZE TESTS WORK? OR, IS IT JUST AN ILLUSION? (2002) (50)
Teaching and Assessing EIL in Local Contexts Around the World (2015) (49)
Tailored cloze: improved with classical item analysis techniques (1988) (48)
Listening for Reduced Forms (1986) (44)
Essay Prompts and Topics (1991) (43)
The Future of World Englishes in Language Testing (2014) (42)
Language Testing Courses: What Are They? (1996) (40)
Improving the Validity of Quantitative Measures in Applied Linguistics Research. (2015) (40)
Statistics as a Foreign Language—Part 2: More Things to Consider in Reading Statistical Language Studies* (1992) (38)
Short-cut estimators of criterion-referenced test consistency (1990) (37)
Statistics as a Foreign Language—Part 1: What to Look for in Reading Statistical Language Studies† (1991) (36)
Teaching Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Heritage Language Students: Curriculum Needs, Materials, and Assessment (2008) (35)
Performance assessment: Existing literature and directions for research (2004) (33)
Variables that affect the dependability of L2 pragmatics tests (2011) (32)
Statistics Corner Questions and answers about language testing statistics: Effect size and eta squared (2000) (29)
Perspectives on teaching connected speech to second language speakers (2006) (29)
My Twenty-Five Years Of Cloze Testing Research: So What? (2013) (27)
11. Raters, Functions, Item Types and the Dependability of L2 Pragmatics Tests (2008) (26)
Standard error vs. Standard error of measurement Standard error vs. Standard error of measurement (1999) (25)
A Cloze Is a Cloze Is a Cloze (1983) (25)
Research Issues: The Use of Multiple t Tests in Language Research (1990) (24)
Testing-Context Analysis: Assessment is Just Another Part of Language Curriculum Development (2008) (23)
Understanding research in second language learning: a teacher's guide to statistics and research design / James Dean Brown (1989) (23)
Designing Second Language Performance Assessments. Technical Report. (1998) (22)
Why Bother Learning Advanced Quantitative Methods in L2 Research (2015) (22)
Determining cloze item difficulty from item and passage characteristics across different learner backgrounds (2017) (20)
The Alternatives in Language Assessment: Advantages and Disadvantages (1998) (20)
New Ways in Teaching Connected Speech (2012) (19)
STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES FOR THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE BEHAVIOR . Rietveld Toni and Roeland van Hout. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1993. Pp. xi + 400. DM 58. (1994) (18)
Developing, using, and analyzing rubrics in language assessment with case studies in Asian and Pacific languages (2012) (18)
Assessment Feedback (2019) (17)
What do we mean by bias, Englishes, Englishes in testing, and English language proficiency? (2004) (17)
Language Program Evaluation: Decisions, Problems and Solutions (1995) (17)
A Comprehensive Criterion-Referenced Language Testing Project (1991) (16)
Resources on quantitative/statistical research for applied linguists (2004) (16)
A preliminary study of cloze procedure as a tool for estimating English readability for Russian students (2012) (16)
A focus on language test development : expanding the language proficiency construct across a variety of tests (2001) (16)
Quantitative Research in Second Language Studies (2011) (16)
Corner Questions and answers about language testing statistics : What is construct validity ? (2009) (14)
Language Testing: The State of the Art. An Online Interview with James Dean Brown. (2015) (13)
Extraneous variables and the washback effect (2009) (13)
Second Language Studies: Curriculum Development (2006) (12)
Developing Courses in Languages for Specific Purposes (2015) (12)
Designing Surveys for Language Programs. (1997) (11)
EIL Curriculum Development: James Dean Brown (2012) (11)
How are PCA and EFA used in language test and questionnaire development (2010) (10)
How are PCA and EFA used in language research (2010) (9)
An Overview of Language for Specific Purposes (2015) (9)
Language Testing in Japan. (1995) (9)
Multiple views of L1 writing score reliability (2007) (9)
New Ways of Classroom Assessment, Revised (2013) (8)
Classical Theory Reliability (2013) (8)
Report on the Hawaiian oral language assessment (H-OLA) development project (2011) (8)
Family Supports for Children Who Have Alcohol-Related Disabilities. (2004) (8)
THE ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF ASSESSMENT IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION (1999) (7)
Item difficulty and heritage language learner status in pragmatic tests for Korean as a foreign language (2013) (7)
Components of engineering-English reading ability? (1988) (7)
English language entrance examinations: A progress report (2002) (7)
New Ways of Classroom Assessment (New Ways in TESOL Series II: Innovative Classroom Techniques) (1998) (6)
Aligning English Language Testing With Curriculum (2016) (6)
Reliability of surveys Reliability of surveys (1997) (6)
English Language Entrance Examinations in Japan: Problems and Solutions (2012) (6)
What Makes a Cloze Item Difficult (1988) (6)
Language testing and technology (2016) (6)
Teaching Statistics in Language Testing Courses (2013) (6)
Sample size and statistical precision (2007) (5)
Generalizability from second language research samples Generalizability from second language research samples (2006) (5)
The same cloze for all occasions? (2020) (5)
UNDERSTANDING AND DEVELOPING LANGUAGE TESTS . Cyril J. Weir. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1993. Pp. xii + 203. (1995) (5)
The Washback Effect of Language Tests (1997) (5)
Language curriculum development: Mistakes were made, problems faced, and lesson learned (2009) (4)
TECHNOLOGY AND LANGUAGE EDUCATION IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY : MEDIA, MESSAGE, AND METHOD (1992) (4)
Designing a Language Study. (1997) (4)
Tailoring Cloze: Three Ways to Improve Cloze Tests (1999) (4)
Recent Publications on Statistics, Language Testing, and Quantitative Research Methods: I@@@Understanding Research in Second Language Learning: A Teacher's Guide to Statistics and Research Design@@@Statistics in Linguistics@@@A Guide to Language Testing: Development, Evaluation, Research@@@Statistic (1989) (4)
Cut Scores on Language Tests (2012) (4)
Generalizability and Decision Studies (2005) (3)
Assessing Pragmatic Competence (2018) (3)
Performance of ESL Students on a State Minimal Competency Test. (1991) (3)
of Education Organization (1990) (3)
Sampling: Quantitative Methods (2012) (3)
Criterion-referenced Language Testing: Curriculum-related testing (2002) (3)
World Englishes and International Standardized English Proficiency Tests (2019) (3)
Southeast Asian Languages Proficiency Examinations. (1991) (2)
A Vision Shared: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly (1991) (2)
Score Dependability and Decision Consistency (2013) (2)
Forty years of doing second language testing, curriculum, and research: So what? (2017) (2)
Decision Dependability of Subtests, Tests, and the Overall TOEFL Test Battery. (1993) (2)
Developing Korean language performance assessments (2001) (2)
Fifteen ways to improve classroom assessment (2016) (2)
Assessment in ELT: Theoretical Options and Sound Pedagogical Choices (2016) (2)
University entrance examinations: University entrance examinations: Strategies for creating positive washback Strategies for creating positive washback on English language teaching in Japan on English language teaching in Japan (2000) (2)
How do stakeholder groups’ views vary on technology in language learning? (2017) (1)
Book Review: Statistical analyses for language assessment (2007) (1)
Problems in Language Program Evaluation (1994) (1)
Excellence in Language Education: A Function of Curriculum Process (1987) (1)
Chapter 4. Connected-speech dictations for testing listening (2018) (1)
Comments on James D. Brown and Thom Hudson's "The Alternatives in Language Assessment". The Authors Respond (1999) (1)
USING COMPUTER SYSTEMS TO ENHANCE CASE MANAGEMENT (1996) (1)
5. Global Englishes and the International Standardized English Language Profi ciency Tests (2019) (1)
Stakeholder Views of the Place of Technology in Flagship Programs. (2016) (1)
Standardized and Proficiency Testing (2018) (1)
Criterion-referenced Language Testing: Frontmatter (2002) (1)
Identifying ESL Students at Linguistic Risk on a State Minimal Competency Test. (1992) (1)
Cloze Tests and Optimum Test Length Cloze Tests and Optimum Test Length (1998) (1)
Defining needs analysis in English for specific purposes (ESP) (2016) (1)
Shaping Learners' Pronunciation (2022) (1)
Rating Writing Samples: An Interdepartmental Perspective (1989) (1)
language testing in Japan include: "Differences Between Norm-Referenced and Criterion-Refere nced Tests" (1994) (1)
Selecting and sequencing ESP needs analysis data collection procedures (2016) (0)
Investigating the criterion-related validity of upper level EIKEN tests using the Rasch model[Sponsored by The Society for Testing English Proficiency](The Application of Contemporary Language Theories to Higher English Education: Focusing on the Importance of Content-based and Context-based Approac (2012) (0)
DESIGNING AND ANALYZING TESTS . Nathan T. Carr. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xxii + 360. (2013) (0)
Book Review: Statistical analyses for language assessment workbook and CD ROM (2007) (0)
The Le Fetuao Samoan Langauge Center oral proficiency interview (2015) (0)
Reclaiming the soul of relationship (2010) (0)
On JALT 95: Curriculum and Evaluation. Proceedings of the JALT International Conference on Language Teaching/Learning (22nd, Nagoya, Japan, November 1995). Section Seven: Testing and Evaluation. (1996) (0)
Assessment and Evaluation:Quantitative Methods (2012) (0)
Reflecting on Challenges in Language Testing Around the World (2021) (0)
John W. Oller Jr, and Kyle Perkins, Research in language testing . Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House, 1980. Pp. xi + 316. (1982) (0)
Analyzing and interpreting ESP needs analysis data (2016) (0)
Introducing Challenges in Language Testing Around the World (2021) (0)
Foreign Teaching Assistant Pilot Project (1987) (0)
R R eferenced Language Te sting eferenced Language Te sting (Cambridge Applied Linguistics Series) (2003) (0)
TESTING THE UNTESTABLE IN LANGUAGE EDUCATION . Amos Paran and Lies Sercu (Eds.). Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters, 2010. Pp. x + 240. (2011) (0)
Differential Subtest Performance and Test-taker Characteristics (1993) (0)
Improving Practice Readiness Among Nurse Residents. (2022) (0)
Focusing the ESP needs analysis (2016) (0)
Recharging the battery: placement tests for ESP students (1997) (0)
Collecting ESP needs analysis data (2016) (0)
Criterion-referenced Language Testing: Validity of criterion-referenced tests (2002) (0)
Using the NA results in the rest of the ESP curriculum (2016) (0)
Criterion-referenced Language Testing: Administering, giving feedback, and reporting on criterion-referenced tests (2002) (0)
Basic descriptive and item statistics for criterion-referenced tests (2002) (0)
Problems Caused by Ignoring Descriptive Statistics in Language Testing (2021) (0)
English Language Proficiency: What is it? and Where do Learners Fit into it? (2021) (0)
JD Brown's essential bookshelf: Connected speech (2023) (0)
Norm Norm - - referenced item analysis referenced item analysis (item facility and item discrimination) (item facility and item discrimination) (2003) (0)
Criterion-referenced Language Testing: Alternate paradigms (2002) (0)
Chapter 20. Examinee abilities and task difficulty in task-based L2 performance assessment (2009) (0)
Criterion Criterion - - referenced item analysis referenced item analysis (The difference index and B (The difference index and B - index) index) (2003) (0)
Cloze-elide as a classroom reading test (2017) (0)
New Ways in Teaching Connected Speech. New Ways Series. (2012) (0)
Performance Assessment of ESL and EFL Students (2000) (0)
Criterion-referenced Language Testing: Reliability, dependability, and unidimensionality (2002) (0)
Criterion-referenced Language Testing: Criterion-referenced test items (2002) (0)
On JALT 95: Curriculum and Evaluation. Proceedings of the JALT International Conference on Language Teaching/Learning (22nd, Nagoya, Japan, November 1995). Section Six: In the Classroom. (1996) (0)
Practical Assessment Tools for College Japanese (2013) (0)
GRE Scores as a Source of Information in UHM ESL Admissions Decisions (1995) (0)
The TESOL QUIRKS Project (1995) (0)

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