OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Language Assessment Quarterly 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
At the Intersection of Language Testing Policy, Practice, and Research: An Interview with Yan Jin	17
Assessing Interactional Competence: ICE versus a Human Partner	17
Assessing Pre-Service Teachers’ Knowledge and Attitudes Towards Language Testing for Citizenship Through LAMAS (Language Accreditation for Migration Attitudes Scale)	14
Aligning Language Frameworks: An Example with the CLB and CEFR	12
An Interview with Timothy Francis McNamara	11
Content Analysis of Test Taker Responses on an AP Japanese Computer-Simulated Conversation Test: A Mixed Methods Approach for A Validity Argument	11
Looking Back and Forward: Language Assessment Insights from Constant Leung	10
Advancing Language Assessment with AI and ML–Leaning into AI is Inevitable, but Can Theory Keep Up?	9
Washback into an Ecosystem of Teaching, Learning and Testing within Asia and Beyond: An Interview with Liying Cheng	9
Validity Arguments for Automated Essay Scoring of Young Students’ Writing Traits	9
L2 writing assessment: An evolutionary perspective	9
The Role of Gazing Behaviors in Navigating Paired Role-Play Interactional Competence Assessment Tasks	8
Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Writing Classroom	8
The Passage is Too Brief for Comprehension: On the Construct Validity of the English Reading Section in the Korean College Scholastic Ability Test	7
At the Interface of Language Testing and Language Teaching: An Interview with Lianzhen He	7
The Academic Achievement of Undergraduate Students with Different English Language Proficiency Profiles	7
The Development and Initial Validation of O-WSVLT, a Meaning-Recall Online L2 Spanish Vocabulary Levels Test	7
A Review on Language Assessment Literacy: Trends, Foci and Contributions	7
The Use of Assistive Technologies Including Generative AI by Test Takers in Language Assessment: A Debate of Theory and Practice	6
Assessing English for Professional Purposes	6
A Study on Peer Mediation in Dynamic Assessment of Translation Revision Competence	5
Dimensionality of Written Accuracy: Exploring the Factor Structure of Linguistic Accuracy Measures	5
Developing and Validating a Computerized Adaptive Testing System for Measuring the English Proficiency of Taiwanese EFL University Students	5
Automatic Speaking Assessment of Spontaneous L2 Finnish and Swedish	5
Promoting Change in Language Teaching and Assessment at Policy and Practice Levels: An Interview with Hossein Farhady	4

Second Language Identity: Awareness, Ideology, and Assessment in Higher Education	4
Learning-Oriented Language Assessment: Putting Theory into Practice *Learning-Oriented Language Assessment: Putting Theory into Practice*	4
“Assessment Research for the Benefit of Humanity”: An Interview with Randy Thrasher and Yoshinori Watanabe	4
Gazing into Cognition: Eye Behavior in Online L2 Speaking Tests	4
Investigating Second Language (L2) Reading Subskill Associations: A Cognitive Diagnosis Approach	4