Validation in Language Assessment

Herausgeber: Kunnan, Antony John

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Validation in Language Assessment contributes to the variety of validation approaches and analytical and interpretive techniques only recently adopted by language assessment researchers. Featuring selected papers from the 17th Language Testing Research Colloquium, the volume presents diverse approaches with an international perspective on validation in language assessment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9780805827538
• ISBN-10: 0805827536
• Artikelnr.: 22024143

Autorenporträt

Antony John Kunnan

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: L. Bachman
Foreword. A.J. Kunnan
Preface. Approaches to Validation in Language Assessment. Part I:Test Development and Test Taking Process.D.M. Kenyon
An Investigation of the Validity of the Demands of Task on Performance-Based Tests of Oral Proficiency. J. Read
Validating the Word Associates Format as a Measure of Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge. R. Fortus
R. Coriat
S. Ford
Prediction of Item Difficulty in the English Section of the Israeli Psychometric Entrance Test. G. Wigglesworth
The Effect of Planning Time on Second Language Test Discourse. Part II:Test Taker Characteristics and Feedback.J.E. Purpura
The Development and Construct Validation of an Instrument Designed to Investigate Selected Cognitive Background Characteristics of Test Takers. C. Clapham
The Effect of Language Proficiency and Background Knowledge on EAP Students' Reading Comprehension. A. Ginther
J. Stevens
Language Background
Ethnicity
and the Internal Construct Validity of the Advanced Placement Spanish Language Examination. A. Brown
N. Iwashita
The Role of Language Background in the Validation of a Computer-Adaptive Test. K. Hill
The Effect of Test Taker Characteristics on Reactions to and Performance on an Oral English Proficiency Test. B. Norton
P. Stein
Why the "Monkeys Passage" Bombed: Tests
Genres
and Teaching. Part III:Perspectives on Validation Research. L. Hamp-Lyons
B.K. Lynch
Perspectives on Validity: An Historical Analysis of Conference Presentations.