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Fairness and Validation in Language Assessment
Fairness of language tests and testing practices has been a concern among test developers and test users. The 19th annual Language Testing Research Colloquium held in 1997 in Florida, brought this concern into focus. The papers in this volume offer an introduction to fairness and validation in the field of language assessment.
Washback in Language Testing
Washback refers to the influence of language testing on teaching and learning. This volume, at the important intersection of language testing and teaching practices, presents theoretical, methodological, and practical guidance for current and future washback studies. In the field of language testing, researchers' major interest has traditionally been focused on issues and solving problems inherent in tests in order to increase their reliability and validity. However, the washback effect goes well beyond the test itself to include factors, such as curriculum, teacher and learner behaviors inside and outside the classroom, their perceptions of the test, and how test scores are used. Only recen...
Validity Argument in Language Testing
With examples of validation studies, this book demonstrates how to design research investigating the validity of language tests.
Examining Reading
This publication highlights the need for test developers to provide clear explanations of the ability constructs which underpin tests offered in the public domain. An explanation is increasingly required or if the validity of test score interpretation and use are to be supported both logically and with empirical evidence. The book demonstates the application of a comprehensive test validation framework which adopts a socio-cognitive perspective. The framework embraces six core components which reflect the practical nature and quality of an actual testing event. It examines Cambridge ESOL writing tasks from the following perspectives: Test Taker, Cognitive Validity, Context Validity, Scoring Validity, Criterion-related Validity and Consequential Validity. The authors show how an understanding and analysis of the framework and its components in relation to specific writing tests can assist test developers to operationalise their tests more effectively, especially in relation to criterial distinctions across test levels.
Dictionary of Language Testing
This Dictionary of Language Testing contains some 600 entries on language assessment
Interfaces Between Second Language Acquisition and Language Testing Research
Second language acquisition (SLA) and language testing (LT) research have largely been viewed as distinct areas of inquiry in applied linguistics. This book provides a fresh look at areas of common interest to both SLA and LT research, and ways in which research in these two areas of applied linguistics can be fruitfully integrated.
Challenges in Language Testing Around the World
This book combines insights from language assessment literacy and critical language testing through critical analyses and research about challenges in language assessment around the world. It investigates problematic practices in language testing which are relevant to language test users such as language program directors, testing centers, and language teachers, as well as teachers-in-training in Graduate Diploma and Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics programs. These issues involve aspects of language testing such as test development, test administration, scoring, and interpretation/use of test results. Chapters in this volume discuss insights about language testing policy, testing world languages, developing program-level language tests and tests of specific language skills, and language assessment literacy. In addition, this book identifies two needs in language testing for further examination: the need for collaboration between language test developers, language test users, and language users, and the need to base language tests on real-world language use.
Criterion-Referenced Language Testing
Criterion-referenced Language Testing looks at the practical applications of this new area of language testing.
Cambridge English Exams - The First Hundred Years
This book is a centenary volume to mark 100 years of Cambridge English exams. The volume chronicles the history of Cambridge ESOL, from the first administration of The Certificate of Proficiency of English in 1913, up to the present. It covers intertwining themes such as mission, exam range, constructs, content, theory and practice, research and validation, and also explores relationships with key countries, institutions, centres, staff and test-takers. Printed in full colour with an attractive layout, the volume includes many photographs and unique access to archival material and interviews with key stakeholders.
Learner Corpora in Language Testing and Assessment
Learner Corpora in Language Testing and Assessment -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Learner corpora in language testing and assessment: Prospects and challenges -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Section I. New corpus resources, tools and methods -- The Marburg Corpus of Intermediate Learner English (MILE) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Learner corpora in the light of the CEFR -- 2.1 The raw data -- 2.2 The annotation -- 3. MILE - design and compilation -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Avalingua: Natural language processing for automatic error detection -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Automatic error detection and correction -- 2.1 Previous research -- 2.2 Applicatio...
