The National Benchmark Test in Academic Literacy: How might it be used to support teaching in higher education?
| dc.contributor.author | Cliff, Alan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-12T05:36:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-05-12T05:36:40Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The National Benchmark Test in Academic Literacy is designed to assess the ability of first-year students to cope with the typical language-of-instruction, academic reading and reasoning demands they will face on entry to higher education. Drawing on quantitative data, this paper reports on the overall performance levels of a large-scale (n = 6500) national sample of test-takers who took the test as applicants for the 2013 intake into higher education. Overall test-taker performance is disaggregated by performance on sub-scales of the overall construct of academic literacy. The argument is made that the National Benchmark Test provides a framework for a nuanced and practicable understanding of test-takers’ academic literacy ‘proficiencies’. The conclusion to the paper evaluates the extent to which the test enables higher education lecturers’ greater engagement with students’ academic literacy shortcomings and with research-led information aimed at the improvement of teaching and learning. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Cliff, A. (2015). The National Benchmark Test in Academic Literacy: How might it be used to support teaching in higher education?. <i>Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19610 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Cliff, Alan "The National Benchmark Test in Academic Literacy: How might it be used to support teaching in higher education?." <i>Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa</i> (2015) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19610 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Cliff, A. (2015). The National Benchmark Test in Academic Literacy: how might it be used to support teaching in higher education?. Language Matters, 46(1), 3-21. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1022-8195 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Journal Article AU - Cliff, Alan AB - The National Benchmark Test in Academic Literacy is designed to assess the ability of first-year students to cope with the typical language-of-instruction, academic reading and reasoning demands they will face on entry to higher education. Drawing on quantitative data, this paper reports on the overall performance levels of a large-scale (n = 6500) national sample of test-takers who took the test as applicants for the 2013 intake into higher education. Overall test-taker performance is disaggregated by performance on sub-scales of the overall construct of academic literacy. The argument is made that the National Benchmark Test provides a framework for a nuanced and practicable understanding of test-takers’ academic literacy ‘proficiencies’. The conclusion to the paper evaluates the extent to which the test enables higher education lecturers’ greater engagement with students’ academic literacy shortcomings and with research-led information aimed at the improvement of teaching and learning. DA - 2015 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa KW - academic literacy KW - language testing KW - standardised assessment KW - language testing KW - teaching and learning LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2015 SM - 1022-8195 T1 - The National Benchmark Test in Academic Literacy: How might it be used to support teaching in higher education? TI - The National Benchmark Test in Academic Literacy: How might it be used to support teaching in higher education? UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19610 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19610 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10228195.2015.1027505 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Cliff A. The National Benchmark Test in Academic Literacy: How might it be used to support teaching in higher education?. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa. 2015; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19610. | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.source | Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa | en_ZA |
| dc.source.uri | http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rlms20/current | |
| dc.subject | academic literacy | |
| dc.subject | language testing | |
| dc.subject | standardised assessment | |
| dc.subject | language testing | |
| dc.subject | teaching and learning | |
| dc.title | The National Benchmark Test in Academic Literacy: How might it be used to support teaching in higher education? | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
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| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Article | en_ZA |