KPG research
Systematic research is being conducted on the input and output of the KPG exams. In English, much of previous (completed) and ongoing research draws on the KPG English Corpus.
Ongoing Research
Systematic research is being carried out on the input and output of the KPG exams in English. Specifically:
- The Task Analysis Project
- The Item Analysis Project
- The KPG test-taking strategies project
- Candidates
- Oral examiners
- Script raters
- The inter-rater reliability project
Completed PhD research
- The effect of text and reader variables on reading comprehension: the case of the Greek State Certificate of English Language Proficiency Exams (KPG) - A New Text Difficulty Index for Automatic Text Classification (February 2013)
- Task dependent interlinguistic mediation performance as translanguaging practice: The use of KPG data for an empirically based study (February 2013)
- World Representations in Language Exam Batteries: Critical Discourse Analysis of Texts Used to Test Reading Comprehension. (April 2012)
Phd research has also being conducted and a number of research projects are under way on several issues:
- Listening comprehension in language proficiency tests: a study of efl test- takers’ strategy based performance in listening testing situations
- Investigating Literacy Requirements of Reading and Listening Comprehension Test Tasks: the Case of the KPG English and French exams
- A corpus-based research of candidates’ scripts concerning text grammar
- Exploring listening comprehension difficulty in language proficiency testing: the case of the greek state certificate examination
- Interlocutor Performance Variability in Language Proficiency Testing: The Case of the Greek State Certificate Examinations
- Towards the Validation of the KPG Activities of Oral Performance
- Factors affecting writing and written mediation task difficulty
Completed postgraduate research
- Investigating difficult reading comprehension test items: The case of KPG exams
- Written mediation in the KPG exams: Source text regulation resulting in hybrid formations (2009).
- Assessing C1 KPG candidates’ pragmatic competence in written tasks: towards the design of task-specific rating scales (2009).
- Integrating preparation for the a level kpg exams in the ‘all day’ school programme: A proposal for an exam preparation syllabus (2009).
- Investigating aspects of validity in mediation tasks: a case study from the Greek State Certificate of Language Proficiency
- Relating Language Tests to the Common European Framework: A Case Study of a Reading Comprehension Test