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Author:   Glenn Fulcher (University of Leicester, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   2nd edition
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032447292

ISBN 10:   103244729
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   29 November 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgements Preface Chapter 1 - Testing and assessment in context 1. Test purpose 2. Tests in educational systems 3. Testing rituals 4. Unintended consequences 5. Testing and society 6. Historical interlude I 7. The politics of language testing 8. Historical interlude II 9. Professionalising language education and testing 10. Validity Chapter 1a - Activities Chapter 2 - Standardised testing 1. Two paradigms 2. Testing as science 3. What’s in a curve? 4. The curve and score meaning 5. Putting it into practice 6. Test scores in a consumer age 7. Testing the test 8. Introducing reliability 9. Calculating reliability 10. Living with uncertainty 11. Reliability and test length 12. Relationships with other measures 13. Measurement Chapter 2a - Activities Chapter 3 - Classroom assessment 1. Life at the chalk-face 2. Assessment for learning 3. Self- and peer-assessment 4. Dynamic assessment 5. Understanding change 6. Assessment and second language acquisition 7. Criterion-referenced testing 8. Dependability 9. Assessment literacy Chapter 3a - Activities Chapter 4 - Deciding what to test 1. The test design cycle 2. Construct definition 3. Where do constructs come from? 4. Models of communicative competence 5. From definition to design Chapter 4a - Activities Chapter 5 - Designing test specifications 1. What are the test specifications? 2. Specifications for testing and teaching 3. A sample detailed specification for reading test 4. Granularity 5. Performance conditions 6. Target language use domain analysis 7. Accommodations 8. Back and forth Chapter 5a - Activities Chapter 6 - Evaluating, prototyping and piloting 1. Investigating usefulness and usability 2. Evaluating items, tasks and specifications 3. Guidelines for multiple-choice items 4. Prototyping 5. Piloting 6. Field testing 7. Item shells 8. Operational item review and pre-testing Chapter 6a - Activities Chapter 7 - Scoring language tests 1. Scoring items 2. Scorability 3. Scoring constructed response tasks 4. Automated scoring 5. Corrections for guessing 6. Avoiding own goals Chapter 7a Activities Chapter 8 - Aligning tests to standards 1. It’s as old as the hills 2. The definition of ‘standards’ 3. The uses of standrads 4. Unintended consequences revisited 5. Using standards for harmonisation and identity 6. How many standards can we afford? 7. Performance level descriptors (PLD) and test scores 8. Some initial decisions 9. Standards-setting methodologies 10. Evaluating standard-setting 11. Training 12. The special case of CEFT 13. You can always count on uncertainty Chapter 8a - Activities Chapter 9 – Validity 1. Preliminaries 2. The Messick Consensus 3. Argument based validation 4. Technicalism 5. The New Realism 6. Constructivism 7. Pragmatic realism 8. Conclusion Chapter 9a - Activities Epilogue Appendices Glossary References Index

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Glenn Fulcher is Emeritus Professor of Education and Language Assessment in the School of Education at the University of Leicester, UK. He is co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing and author of Re-examining Language Testing: A Philosophical and Social Inquiry. These two books jointly won the SAGE/ILTA Book Award in 2016. His other books include Language Testing and Assessment: An Advanced Resource Book and Testing Second Language Speaking. He has published over 100 research papers. In 2021 he received the Messick Memorial Award from Educational Testing Service, and in 2022 was elected a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He is also a UK National Teaching Fellow.

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