Dan Isbell
@danielrisbell.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Second Language Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, specializing in language assessment. Associate Editor at Language Learning journal (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14679922). Views own. https://isbell.github.io/
Yes! Though we can't run a proportion test on it, hah. Luckily I included more polarizing ones:
The student requested about an extension for her research paper because she was sick. (53% endorsed)
If can, can, if no can, no can (53%)
(gonna split students by in/out-of-state for that 2nd one)
The student requested about an extension for her research paper because she was sick. (53% endorsed)
If can, can, if no can, no can (53%)
(gonna split students by in/out-of-state for that 2nd one)
November 3, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Yes! Though we can't run a proportion test on it, hah. Luckily I included more polarizing ones:
The student requested about an extension for her research paper because she was sick. (53% endorsed)
If can, can, if no can, no can (53%)
(gonna split students by in/out-of-state for that 2nd one)
The student requested about an extension for her research paper because she was sick. (53% endorsed)
If can, can, if no can, no can (53%)
(gonna split students by in/out-of-state for that 2nd one)
So we're (finally) learning about proportion tests and I did a set of acceptability judgments (simple yes/no response) with students, including the sentence "I'll search it up on my phone." and...
*drumroll*
100% of my undergrad students found it acceptable.
*drumroll*
100% of my undergrad students found it acceptable.
November 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
So we're (finally) learning about proportion tests and I did a set of acceptability judgments (simple yes/no response) with students, including the sentence "I'll search it up on my phone." and...
*drumroll*
100% of my undergrad students found it acceptable.
*drumroll*
100% of my undergrad students found it acceptable.
We recruited a large number of layperson listeners to complete transcriptions (one utterance at a time) and comprehensibility ratings of archived Aptis responses and compared those listener-based measures to official scores. Methodologically this is one of my favorite projects!
October 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
We recruited a large number of layperson listeners to complete transcriptions (one utterance at a time) and comprehensibility ratings of archived Aptis responses and compared those listener-based measures to official scores. Methodologically this is one of my favorite projects!
I tried another animal emoji prompt, and apparently there are people who think the badger emoji is an anteater emoji, which people use generically for animals with long snouts?
October 15, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I tried another animal emoji prompt, and apparently there are people who think the badger emoji is an anteater emoji, which people use generically for animals with long snouts?
This is great - Gemini (my uni pays for it, might as well use it to show AI failures...) gets it right because it searches the web for recent articles, but then suggests people combine the wave and horse for seahorse, which I have no idea on.
October 15, 2025 at 11:40 PM
This is great - Gemini (my uni pays for it, might as well use it to show AI failures...) gets it right because it searches the web for recent articles, but then suggests people combine the wave and horse for seahorse, which I have no idea on.