Aimed at researchers and students interested in language testing theory and practice, the chapters in this book vary in style and content and are both stimulating and robust. The book brings together a fascinating group of authors from the established to the new, presenting new ideas and challenging current orthodoxies. BARRY O'SULLIVAN is Director of the Centre for Language Assessment Research at Roehampton University, UK. He has written two books, 'Issues in Business English Testing' and 'Modelling Performance in Tests of Spoken Language' and works with ministries, universities and examination boards around the world. INDICE: Series Preface - Acknowledgements - List Of Contributors - Introduction; B.O'Sullivan - Test Development and Validation; 'B.O'Sullivan' & 'C.J.Weir' - Describing Language Levels; 'B.North' - Testing Linguistic Relativity; 'A.Davies' - Componentiality in L2 Listening; 'P.Joyce' - Benchmarking and Standards in Language Tests; 'E.Kantarcioglu' & 'S.Papageorgiou' - Producing an Index of Word Difficulty Through Learner Self-Assessment Data: An Application of Rasch Modelling; 'T.Shiotsu - 'An Alternative Approach to Rating Scale Development; 'A.H.A.Raof - 'Quantifying Conversational Styles in Group Oral Test Discourse; 'B.O'Sullivan' & 'F.Nakatsuhara' - A Case of Testing L2 English Reading for Class Level Placement; 'A.Green' - A Model for the Development and Application of a Diagnostic Test for Trainee Foreign Language Teachers; 'D.Burrell', 'U.Graham', 'D.Medley', 'B.Richards '& 'J.Roberts - 'Developing Affordable 'Local' Tests: 'The Exaver Project', 'A.A.Florescano', 'B.O'Sullivan', 'C.S.Chavez', 'D.E.Ryan', 'E.Z.Lara', 'L.A.S.Martinez', 'M.I.G.Macias', 'M.M. Hart', 'P.E.Grounds', 'P.R.Ryan', 'R.A.Dunne '& 'T.De Jesus Romero Barradas - 'The Development and Validation of an Online Rater Training and Marking System: Promises and Pitfalls; 'A.Brown' & 'P.Jaquith' - The 'Hard' Criterion: The Use of Language Test Information in University Admissions Processes; 'P.Rea-Dickins', 'R.Kiely' & 'G.Yu - 'Assessment in the Learning System; 'J.O'Dwyer - 'Index - -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-23062-0
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 328
- Fecha Publicación: 27/05/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés