The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing

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Glenn Fulcher, Fred Davidson
Routledge, 2013 M10 15 - 550 pages

Winner of the SAGE/ILTA Book Award 2016

The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing will provide a comprehensive account of the area of language assessment and testing. Written by leading specialists from around the world, this volume brings together approximately 35 authoritative articles (around 8000 words each). The proposed outline for the Handbook (below) is divided into ten sections. The section titles reflect the contents of their Language Testing and Assessment –textbook in our RAL series and sketch a useful overview of the discipline. Each chapter has been carefully selected to relate to key issues raised in the respective topic, providing additional historical background, critical discussion, reviews of key research methods, and an assessment of what the future might hold.

 

Contents

List of illustrations
Conceptions of validity
Illustrations
Articulating a validity argument
Validity issues in designing accommodations for English
Classroom assessment
Washback
Assessing young learners
Preoperational testing
Piloting vocabulary tests
Classical test theory
Item response theory
Reliability and dependability
The generalisability of scores from language tests
30point scale fictitious data
Scoring performance tests

Dynamic assessment
Diagnostic assessment in language classrooms
Designing language tests for specific social uses
Language assessment for communication disorders
Language assessment for immigration and citizenship
Social dimensions of language testing
Test specifications and criterion referenced assessment
Claims evidence and inference in performance assessment
Item writing and writers
Writing integrated items
Testtaking strategies and task design
Prototyping new item types
Quality management in test production and administration
Interlocutor and rater training
Technology in language testing
Validity and the automated scoring of performance tests
Ethical codes and unexpected consequences
Fairness
Standardsbased testing
competencies
Language testing and language management
Index
Figures
Copyright

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About the author (2013)

Glenn Fulcher is Professor of Education and Language Assessment at the University of Leicester, UK.

Fred Davidson is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Routledge Handbook of Language Testing
Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics
EditorsGlenn Fulcher, Fred Davidson
Editionillustrated
PublisherRoutledge, 2013
ISBN1136590854, 9781136590856
Length550 pages
  
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