The creation of language tests is―and should be―a craft that is accessible and doable not only by a few language test experts, but also by many others who are involved in second/foreign language education, say the authors of this clear and timely book. Fred Davidson and Brian Lynch offer language educators a how-to guide for creating tests that reliably measure exactly what they are intended to measure. Classroom teachers, language administrators, and professors of language testing courses will find in this book an easy and flexible approach to language testing as well as the tools they need to develop tests appropriate to their individual needs. Davidson and Lynch explain criterion-related language test development, a process that focuses on the early stages of test development when the criterion to be tested is defined, specifications are established, and items and tasks are written. This process helps clarify the description of what is being measured by a test and enables teachers to give input on test design in any instructional setting. Informed by extensive research in criterion-referenced measurement, this book invites all language educators to participate in the craft of test development and shows them how to go about it.

Testcraft: A Teacher`s Guide to Writing and Using Language Test Specifications

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Davidson, Fred

Lynch, Brian K.

Words, Language & Grammar

Yale University Press

Routledge Applied Linguistics is a series of comprehensive textbooks, providing students and researchers with the support they need for advanced study in the core areas of English language and Applied Linguistics. Each book in the series guides readers through three main sections, enabling them to explore and develop major themes within the discipline. <ul>
<li>Section A, Introduction, establishes the key terms and concepts and extends readers’ techniques of analysis through practical application. </li> <li>Section B, Extension, brings together influential articles, sets them in context, and discusses their contribution to the field. </li> <li>Section C, Exploration, builds on knowledge gained in the first two sections, setting thoughtful tasks around further illustrative material. This enables readers to engage more actively with the subject matter and encourages them to develop their own research responses. </li>
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Throughout the book, topics are revisited, extended, interwoven and deconstructed, with the reader’s understanding strengthened by tasks and follow-up questions. Language Testing and Assessment: <ul>
<li>introduces students to the key methods and debates surrounding language testing and assessment</li> <li>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</li> <li>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.</li> </ul> The accompanying website to this book can be found at http://cw.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415339476/

Language Testing and Assessment: An Advanced Resource Book (Routledge Applied Linguistics)

Fulcher, Glenn

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Routledge

Language Testing and Assessment (Routledge Applied Linguistics)

This book documents a major study comparing the Cambridge First Certificate in English (FCE) with the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) to investigate similarities in test content, candidature and use. While both tests were designed to measure many of the same abilities, they represent radically different approaches to language test development, reflecting deeper differences between educational measurement traditions in the US and UK.    The thorough investigation of the fundamental characteristics and operational utility of two of the most widely used English tests for foreign students makes this study a valuable contribution to language testing research. As such, it will be of considerable interest to language testing specialists and examination boards, as well as to academic researchers and graduate students in the field of language assessment more generally.

An Investigation into the Comparability of Two Tests of English as a Foreign Language (Studies in Language Testing, Series Number 1)

Ryan, Katherine

Bachman, Lyle F.

Choi, Inn-Chull

Cambridge University Press

This book documents a major study comparing the Cambridge First Certificate in English (FCE) with the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) to investigate similarities in test content, candidature and use. While both tests were designed to measure many of the same abilities, they represent radically different approaches to language test development, reflecting deeper differences between educational measurement traditions in the US and UK. The thorough investigation of the fundamental characteristics and operational utility of two of the most widely used English tests for foreign students makes this study a valuable contribution to language testing research. As such, it will be of considerable interest to language testing specialists and examination boards, as well as to academic researchers and graduate students in the field of language assessment more generally.

An Investigation into the Comparability of Two Tests of English as a Foreign Language (Studies in Language Testing) (v. 1)

This book will help the reader understand the principles of data handling and make better use of computer data in research or study. It demonstrates how to input, manipulate and debug data to make substantive analysis easier and more accurate. Using a series of principles, universal concepts that apply no matter what the data-gathering context or computer software, Fred Davidson presents a situation or a problem, suggests how it might be resolved and demonstrates the implementation of each principle as it appears in the command languages of SAS and SPSS.

Principles of Statistical Data Handling

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Sage Publications, Inc.

This book will help the reader understand the principles of data handling and make better use of computer data in research or study. It demonstrates how to input, manipulate and debug data to make substantive analysis easier and more accurate. Using a series of principles, universal concepts that apply no matter what the data-gathering context or computer software, Fred Davidson presents a situation or a problem, suggests how it might be resolved and demonstrates the implementation of each principle as it appears in the command languages of SAS and SPSS.

An Introduction to Creativity

Book by Joyce, Michael, Isaksen, Scott, Davidson, Fred, Puccio, Gerald, Coppage, Carol, Maruska, Mary A.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Joyce, Michael

Isaksen, Scott

Puccio, Gerald

Coppage, Carol

Maruska, Mary A.

Psychology & Counseling

Xanedu Pub

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