Search Results - "Elize Koch"

Testing in bilingual education projects : lessons learnt from the additive bilingual education project by Koch, Elize

“…This paper discusses the topic of bilingual testing and the role played by the language of tests in home-language-based bilingual education projects such as…”
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Die Evaluering Van ‘N Eentalige Toelatingstoets Wat Vir Toelating Tot Hoër Onderwys In ’N Veeltalige Konteks Gebruik Word by Elize Koch

“…The evaluation of monolingual admissions test used for admission to higher education in a plurilingual context. This study aims to critically evaluate the…”
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An item and construct bias analysis of two language versions of a verbal analogies scale by Koch, Elize, Roomaney, Rizwana

“…The Woodcock Muñoz Language Survey is a test of cognitive academic language proficiency that has been adapted from English into Xhosa by a South African team…”
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The difference between adolescent users and non-users of addictive substances in a low socio-economic status community : contextual factors explored from the perspective of subjective wellbeing by Koch, Elize, Florence, Maria

“…We aimed to explore the differences between adolescents from a low socio-economic Cape Town community who used addictive substances, and those who did not,…”
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The case for bilingual language tests: a study of test adaptation and analysis by Koch, Elize

“…The justification for the use of language tests in education in multilingual and multicultural societies needs to include both the aims of bilingual education,…”
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Investigating item and construct bias in an English verbal analogies scale by Ismail, Ghouwa, Koch, Elize

“…For this study the researcher was interested in investigating the scalar equivalence of the adapted English version of the verbal analogies (VA) subscale of…”
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The argument for evaluating monolingual language tests for equivalence across language groups by Haupt, Genevieve, Koch, Elize

“…The demonstration of scalar equivalence in language proficiency tests (which can be viewed as monolingual language tests) has often been deemed as unnecessary…”
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The use of language criteria for admission to higher education in South Africa: issues of bias and fairness investigated by Koch, Elize, Dornbrack, Jacqui

“…The implementation of the new National Senior Certificate (NSC) has necessitated the setting of new admission criteria for higher education (HE), both…”
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First brushstrokes: initial comparative results on the Additive Bilingual Education Project (ABLE) by Koch, Elize, Landon, John, Jackson, MJ, Foli, Cordelia

“…The ABLE project was started in 2003 at a school of mainly first language speakers of isiXhosa in the rural areas of the Eastern Cape, South Africa with the…”
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