Language Testing and Assessment

Description

Language Testing and Assessment:

• introduces students to the key methods and debates surrounding language testing and assessment
• explores the testing of linguistic competence of children, students, asylum seekers and many others in context of the uses to which such research can be put
• presents influential and seminal readings in testing and assessment by names such as Michael Canale and Merrill Swain, Michael Kane, Alan Davies, Lee Cronbach and Paul Meehl, and Pamela Moss.

The accompanying webite to this book can be found at <a hef="http://www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415339476/">http://www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415339476/</a>

Contents

Section A: Introduction Unit 1: Introducing Validity Unit 2: Classroom Assessment Unit 3: Constructs and Models Unit 4: Test Specifications and Designs Unit 5: Writing Items and Tasks Unit 6: Prototypes, Prototyping and Field Tests Unit 7: Scoring Language Tests and Assessments Unit 8: Administration and Training Unit 9: Fairness, Ethics and Standards Unit 10: Arguments and Evidence in Test Validation and Use Section B: Expansion Unit 1: Construct Validity Unit 2: Pedagogic Assessment Unit 3: Investigating Communicative Competence Unit 4: Optimal Specification Design Unit 5: Washback Unit 6: Researching Prototype Tasks Unit 7: Scoring Performance Tests Unit 8: Interlocutor Training and Behaviour Unit 9: Ethics and Professionalism Unit 10: Validity as Argument Section C: Exploration Unit 1: Validity – An Exploration Unit 2: Assessment in School Systems Unit 3: What do Items Really Test? Unit 4: Evolution in Action Unit 5: To See a Test in a Grain of Sand Unit 6: Analyzing Items and Tasks Unit 7: Designing an Alternative Matrix Unit 8: Administration and Alignment Unit 9: In a Time Far Far Away Unit 10: To Boldly Go. Glossary. References. Index

Related Subjects

1. Language & Linguistics
2. Applied Linguistics
3. Linguistic Theory