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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Assessing Interactional Competence: ICE versus a Human Partner	21
Assessing Pre-Service Teachers’ Knowledge and Attitudes Towards Language Testing for Citizenship Through LAMAS (Language Accreditation for Migration Attitudes Scale)	16
Aligning Language Frameworks: An Example with the CLB and CEFR	15
Content Analysis of Test Taker Responses on an AP Japanese Computer-Simulated Conversation Test: A Mixed Methods Approach for A Validity Argument	14
Looking Back and Forward: Language Assessment Insights from Constant Leung	12
An Interview with Timothy Francis McNamara	12
Validity Arguments for Automated Essay Scoring of Young Students’ Writing Traits	12
Extra Time as an Access Arrangement in Digital Listening Tasks for L2 Learners with Literacy Difficulties	11
Advancing Language Assessment with AI and ML–Leaning into AI is Inevitable, but Can Theory Keep Up?	10
L2 writing assessment: An evolutionary perspective	10
A Review on Language Assessment Literacy: Trends, Foci and Contributions	9
The Role of Gazing Behaviors in Navigating Paired Role-Play Interactional Competence Assessment Tasks	9
The Academic Achievement of Undergraduate Students with Different English Language Proficiency Profiles	8
Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Writing Classroom	8
Washback into an Ecosystem of Teaching, Learning and Testing within Asia and Beyond: An Interview with Liying Cheng	8
The Development and Initial Validation of O-WSVLT, a Meaning-Recall Online L2 Spanish Vocabulary Levels Test	7
Assessing English for Professional Purposes	7
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
Learning to Assess: Cultivating Assessment Capacity in Teacher Education	6
Dimensionality of Written Accuracy: Exploring the Factor Structure of Linguistic Accuracy Measures	6
Automatic Speaking Assessment of Spontaneous L2 Finnish and Swedish	6
The Use of Assistive Technologies Including Generative AI by Test Takers in Language Assessment: A Debate of Theory and Practice	6
A Study on Peer Mediation in Dynamic Assessment of Translation Revision Competence	5
Developing and Validating a Computerized Adaptive Testing System for Measuring the English Proficiency of Taiwanese EFL University Students	5

Learning-Oriented Language Assessment: Putting Theory into Practice *Learning-Oriented Language Assessment: Putting Theory into Practice*	5
Promoting Change in Language Teaching and Assessment at Policy and Practice Levels: An Interview with Hossein Farhady	4
Informing Q-Matrix Specification with Exploratory Factor Analysis in Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment of Language Comprehension	4
Second Language Identity: Awareness, Ideology, and Assessment in Higher Education	4
Investigating Second Language (L2) Reading Subskill Associations: A Cognitive Diagnosis Approach	4
Assessing Academic English for Higher Education Admissions	4
Gazing into Cognition: Eye Behavior in Online L2 Speaking Tests	4
Ethics and Context in Second Language Testing: Rethinking Validity in Theory and Practice.	4