Includes bibliographical references and index.

About the editors: " (Routledge, 2006).

Introduction / Glen Fulcher and Fred Davidson

PART I VALIDITY

1. Conceptions of validity / Carol A. Chapelle

2. Articulating a validity argument / Michael Kane

3. Validity issues in designing accommodations for English language learners / Jamal Abedi

PART II CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT AND WASHBACK

4. Classroom assessment / Carolyn E. Turner

5. Washback / Dianne Wall

6. Assessing young learners / Angela Hasselgreen

7. Dynamic assessment / Marta Anton

8. Diagnostic assessment in language classrooms / Eunice Eunhee Jang

PART III THE SOCIAL USES OF LANGUAGE TESTING

9. Designing language tests for specific social uses / Carol Lynn Moder and Gene B. Halleck

10. Language assessment for communication disorders / John W. Oller, Jr.

11. Language assessment for immigration and citizenship / Antony John Kunnan

12. Social dimensions of language testing / Richard F. Young

PART IV TEST SPECIFICATIONS

13. Test specifications and criterion referenced assessment / Fred Davidson

14. Evidence-centered design in language testing / Robert J. Mislevy and Chengbin Yin

15. Claims, evidence, and inference in performance assessment / Steven J. Ross

PART V WRITING ITEMS AND TASKS

16. Item writing and writers / Dong-il Shin

17. Writing integrated items / Lia Plakans

18. Test-taking strategies and task design / Andrew D. Cohen

PART VI PROTOTYPING AND FIELD TESTS

19. Prototyping new item types / Susan Nissan and Mary Schedl

20. Pre-operational testing / Dorry M. Kenyon and David MacGregor

21. Piloting vocabulary tests / John Read

PART VII MEASUREMENT THEORY AND PRACTICE

22. Classical test theory / James Dean Brown

23. Item response theory / Gary J. Ockey

24. Reliability and dependability / Neil Jones

25. The generalisability of scores from language tests / Rob Schoonen

26. Scoring performance tests / Glenn Fulcher

PART VIII ADMINISTRATION AND TRAINING

27. Quality management in test production and administration / Nick Saville

28. Interlocutor and rater training / Annie Brown

29. Technology in language testing / Yasuyo Sawaki

30. Validity and the automated scoring of performance tests / Xiaoming Xi

PART IX ETHICS AND LANGUAGE POLICY

31. Ethical codes and unexpected consequences / Alan Davies

32. Fairness / F. Scott Walters

33. Standards-based testing / Thom Hudson

34. Language testing and language management / Bernard Spolsky

Index

Glenn Fulcher is Professor of Education and Language Assessment at the University of Leicester, UK. He is co-author of Language Testing and Assessment: An Advanced Resource Book, with Fred Davidson (Routledge, 2006). -- Fred Davidson is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is co-author of Language Testing and Assessment: An Advanced Resource Book.

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