Understanding Language Testing 1st Edition by Dan Douglas ISBN 1138403938 9781138403932

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ISBN 10: 1138403938 
ISBN 13: 9781138403932
Author: Dan Douglas

Understanding Language Testing 1st Table of contents:

1 Introduction: the rubber ruler
1.1 Why Test Language Learning?
1.2 What is a Language Test?
1.2.1 What are the properties of measuring devices?
1.3 The Rubber Ruler
1.4 Tests, Measurement and Evaluation
1.4.1 Evaluation without measurement
1.4.2 Measurement without a test
1.4.3 Tests
1.5 Ethical Uses of Language Tests
1.5.1 Reliability
1.5.2 Validity
Further Reading
Exercises
2 Measuring language ability and making decisions
2.1 Measuring Language Ability
2.2 Making Decisions About Learners, Teachers, Programmes and Policies
2.3 Contexts of Language Use
2.3.1 Contextual features
2.3.2 Authenticity
2.4 Making Valid Interpretations of Test Performance
2.4.1 Consistency of measurement
2.4.2 Validity: evidence for interpretations of test performance
2.5 Conclusion: Bias for Best
Further Reading
Exercises
3 Test development
3.1 What do i Need to Test? Needs Analysis
3.1.1 Define the purpose of the test
3.1.2 Conduct a preliminary investigation
3.1.3 Collect primary data
3.1.4 Collect secondary data
3.1.5 Analyse target language use task and language characteristics
3.2 How am i Going to Test Language Abilities? Turning Target Language Use Tasks into Test Tasks
3.2.1 Developing a test task
3.2.2 Developing a blueprint for the test
3.2.3 Options for test tasks
3.3 How am i Going to Give the Test? Test Administration
3.3.1 Test environment
3.3.2 Personnel
3.3.3 Procedures
3.3.4 Scoring
3.4 How can my Computer Assist me in Test Development? Computer-Based Tools
3.4.1 Hot Potatoes
3.4.2 Moodle
3.4.3 WebCT
3.5 Conclusion
Further Reading
Exercises
4 Alternatives in assessment
4.1 Norm-Referenced and Criterion-Referenced Tests
4.2 Communicative Language Tests
4.3 ‘General’ and ‘Specific Purpose’ Language Tests
4.4 Discrete-Point and Integrative Tests
4.5 Formative and Summative Assessment
4.6 Alternative Approaches to Assessment
4.6.1 Conference assessments
4.6.2 Portfolio assessment
4.6.3 Self- and peer-assessments
4.6.4 Task-based and performance assessment
4.6.5 Dynamic assessment
4.6.6 Summary
4.7 Conclusion
Further Reading
Exercises
5 By the numbers: a statistics mini-course
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Normal Distribution
5.3 The Average or Mean
5.4 Standard Deviation
5.4.1 Standard deviation as a unit of measurement
5.5 Correlation
5.6 Probability and Statistical Significance
5.7 The T-Test of the Difference Between Two Averages
5.8 Analysis of Variance
5.9 Reliability
5.9.1 Split-half method
5.9.2 Internal consistency method
5.9.3 Standard error of measurement
5.10 The Reliability of Human Raters
5.11 Conclusion
Further Reading
Exercises
6 Technology and language testing
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Issues in Technology and Language Testing
6.2.1 Technology and test taker attitudes
6.2.2 Language performance and different media
6.2.3 Technology and the construct to be measured
6.2.4 Technology and assessment tasks
6.2.5 The limits of automated scoring
6.3 Technology and Language Task Types
6.3.1 Listening tasks
6.3.2 Integrated listening and speaking tasks
6.3.3 Writing tasks
6.3.4 Reading tasks
6.4 The Promise and Threats of Automated Scoring
6.4.1 Examples of current automated scoring programs
6.4.2 Concerns about automated scoring
6.5 Test Feedback and Reporting
6.6 Online and Computer-Based Resources for Statistics
6.6.1 Microsoft® Excel
6.6.2 Online resources

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