OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Language Testing is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Test score comparison tables: How well are they serving test users?	24
Book Review: Validity: Theoretical Development and Integrated Arguments	24
A meta-analysis on the predictive validity of English language proficiency assessments for college admissions	22
Development and initial validation of productive vocabulary tests for isiZulu, Siswati and English in South Africa	16
How do raters learn to rate? Many-facet Rasch modeling of rater performance over the course of a rater certification program	14
Our validity looks like justice. Does yours?	13
Test review: High-stakes English language proficiency tests—Enquiry, resit, and retake policies	13
Implementation of an accommodations policy for candidates with diverse needs in a large-scale testing system	13
Open Access in language testing and assessment: The case of two flagship journals	12
Local tests, local contexts	12
Register variation in spoken and written language use across technology-mediated and non-technology-mediated learning environments	11
Diagnosing Chinese EFL learners’ writing ability using polytomous cognitive diagnostic models	11
Argument-based validation of Academic Collocation Tests	10
The typology of second language listening constructs: A systematic review	10
Open Science and the next generation of language testing research	10
Using instructor judgment, learner corpora, and DIF to develop a placement test for Spanish L2 and heritage learners	9
Open Science should be welcomed by test providers but grounded in pragmatic caution: A response to Winke	9
Proficiency at the lexis–grammar interface: Comparing oral versus written French exam tasks	9
Book Review: Assessing Academic English for Higher Education Admissions	9
Accommodations in language testing and assessment: Safeguarding equity, access, and inclusion	8
Examining the predictive validity of the Duolingo English Test: Evidence from a major UK university	7
Language Testing behind the scenes: New capabilities, groundbreaking developments, and disruptive forces	7
The vexing problem of validity and the future of second language assessment	7
All types of experience are equal, but some are more equal: The effect of different types of experience on rater severity and rater consistency	7
Book Reviews: Reconsidering Context in Language Assessment: Transdisciplinary Perspectives, Social Theories, and Validity J. Fox and N. Artemeva	7

The relationship between written discourse features and integrated listening-to-write scores for adolescent English language learners	7
Test score validity periods for high-stakes language tests: Applications in higher education and medical sectors	7
A Context-Aligned Two Thousand Test: Toward estimating high-frequency French vocabulary knowledge for beginner-to-low intermediate proficiency adolescent learners in England	6
Book Review: Scoring Second Language Spoken and Written Performance: Issues, Options and Directions	6
Reading is a multidimensional construct at child-L2-English-literacy onset, but comprises fewer dimensions over time: Evidence from multidimensional IRT analysis	5
Assessing Rasch measurement estimation methods across R packages with yes/no vocabulary test data	5
Construct validity and fairness of an operational listening test with World Englishes	5
Korean Syntactic Complexity Analyzer (KOSCA): An NLP application for the analysis of syntactic complexity in second language production	5
Measuring the development of general language skills in English as a foreign language—Longitudinal invariance of the C-test	5
Fairness and justice in language testing: The challenge of Tim McNamara’s legacy	5
Comparing holistic and analytic marking methods in assessing speech act production in L2 Chinese	5
Rethinking student placement to enhance efficiency and student agency	5
Investigating the impact of self-pacing on the L2 listening performance of young learner candidates with differing L1 literacy skills	5
Epilogue—Note from an outgoing editor	4
Fairness of using different English accents: The effect of shared L1s in listening tasks of the Duolingo English test	4
Considerations to promote and accelerate Open Science: A response to Winke	4
Aptis test review	4
An industry perspective on Open Science: A response to Winke	4
Book review: L2 Writing Assessment: An Evolutionary Perspective	4
Roles of working memory, syllogistic inferencing ability, and linguistic knowledge on second language listening comprehension for passages of different lengths	4
The development of a Chinese vocabulary proficiency test (CVPT) for learners of Chinese as a second/foreign language	4
Operationalizing the reading-into-writing construct in analytic rating scales: Effects of different approaches on rating	4
Evaluating methodological enhancements to the Yes/No Angoff standard-setting method in language proficiency assessment	4