John A. Upshur

List of John Benjamins publications in which John A. Upshur is involved.

Article

Turner, Carolyn E. and John A. Upshur 1996 Developing rating scales for the assessment of second language performance The Language Testing Cycle: From inception to washback, Wigglesworth, Gillian and Catherine Elder (eds.), pp. 55–79 | Article

The two most common approaches to rating second language performance pose problems of reliability and validity. An alternative method utilizes rating scales that are empirically derived from samples of learner performance; these scales define boundaries between adjacent score levels rather than… read more