OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Language Assessment Quarterly is 3. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

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
Aligning Language Frameworks: An Example with the CLB and CEFR	14
Assessing Pre-Service Teachers’ Knowledge and Attitudes Towards Language Testing for Citizenship Through LAMAS (Language Accreditation for Migration Attitudes Scale)	10
Validity Arguments for Automated Essay Scoring of Young Students’ Writing Traits	9
Looking Back and Forward: Language Assessment Insights from Constant Leung	9
An Interview with Timothy Francis McNamara	9
Content Analysis of Test Taker Responses on an AP Japanese Computer-Simulated Conversation Test: A Mixed Methods Approach for A Validity Argument	9
Advancing the International Recognition of the Locally-Produced GEPT: An Interview with Jessica Wu	8
Advancing Language Assessment with AI and ML–Leaning into AI is Inevitable, but Can Theory Keep Up?	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
L2 writing assessment: An evolutionary perspective	7
Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Writing Classroom	7
The Role of Gazing Behaviors in Navigating Paired Role-Play Interactional Competence Assessment Tasks	7
A Review on Language Assessment Literacy: Trends, Foci and Contributions	7
The Academic Achievement of Undergraduate Students with Different English Language Proficiency Profiles	6
At the Interface of Language Testing and Language Teaching: An Interview with Lianzhen He	6
Fairness, Justice, and Language Assessment	6
The Use of Assistive Technologies Including Generative AI by Test Takers in Language Assessment: A Debate of Theory and Practice	5
Assessing English for Professional Purposes	5
Automatic Speaking Assessment of Spontaneous L2 Finnish and Swedish	5
A Study on Peer Mediation in Dynamic Assessment of Translation Revision Competence	4
Second Language Identity: Awareness, Ideology, and Assessment in Higher Education	4
Developing and Validating a Computerized Adaptive Testing System for Measuring the English Proficiency of Taiwanese EFL University Students	4

Promoting Change in Language Teaching and Assessment at Policy and Practice Levels: An Interview with Hossein Farhady	4
Learning-Oriented Language Assessment: Putting Theory into Practice *Learning-Oriented Language Assessment: Putting Theory into Practice*	4
Gazing into Cognition: Eye Behavior in Online L2 Speaking Tests	3
Remote Proctoring in Language Testing: Implications for Fairness and Justice	3
“Assessment Research for the Benefit of Humanity”: An Interview with Randy Thrasher and Yoshinori Watanabe	3
Another Generation of Fundamental Considerations in Language Assessment: A Festschrift in Honor of Lyle F. Bachman	3
Twenty Years of Language Assessment Quarterly : An Interview with LAQ Founder Antony Kunnan	3
Assessing Academic English for Higher Education Admissions	3
Fostering Self-Regulated Young Writers: Dynamic Assessment of Metacognitive Competence in Secondary School EFL Class	3
Application of Bi-factor MIRT and Higher-order CDM Models to an In-house EFL Listening Test for Diagnostic Purposes	3
Investigating Second Language (L2) Reading Subskill Associations: A Cognitive Diagnosis Approach	3