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Title:
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CHALLENGES FOR RUSSIAN STUDENTS IN COMPUTER-BASED TESTS |
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Author(s):
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Anastasia A. Barsukova and Victoria Y. Aksenova |
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ISBN:
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978-989-8533-81-4 |
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Editors:
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Demetrios G. Sampson, Dirk Ifenthaler and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2018 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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English as a Foreign Language, Computer-Based Exams, Assessment |
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Type:
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Reflection Paper |
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First Page:
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401 |
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Last Page:
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403 |
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Language:
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English |
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Paper Abstract:
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The article aims to outline and analyze the most demanding parts of computer-based exams for the students of the Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russian B.N. Yeltsin (Ekaterinburg, Russia) during one exam session of spring of 2016-2017. For this research, a quantitative method of mean scores for reading, listening, and use of English (for levels A2, B1, B2 CEFR) was used. The data expressed in mean percentages were processed and several conclusions were drawn, trying to account for the results. The results revealed that at the A2 level there are more difficulties with the Reading part (Reading and identifying appropriate vocabulary) for the first-year students than for the second-year students, 46% and 54% respectively. By contrast, in Listening (Gap-fill) students of the second year showed lower scores (50%) than those of the first one (67%). At B1 level, the greatest challenge was Reading part (Sentence transformation) for students of both years of education (38% for the first and 50% for the second year students). B2 level students demonstrated the most considerable number of issues, among them Use of English (Keyword transformation 0 for both years of education, open cloze, word-formation), Reading (gapped text), Listening (Gap-fill,dialogue/monologue 6 multiple choice questions). |
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