
Criterion-Referenced Language Testing
Cambridge University Press
Published on 20. May 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
340 pages
978-0-521-00083-3 (ISBN)
Description
Over the past decade criterion-referenced testing (CRT) has become an emerging issue in language assessment. Most language testing books have hitherto focused almost exclusively on norm-referenced testing, whereby test takers' scores are interpreted with reference to the performance of other test takers, and have ignored CRT, an approach that examines the level of knowledge of a specific domain of target behaviours. It is designed to comprehensively address the wide variety of CRT and decision-making needs that more and more language-teaching professionals must address in their daily work. Criterion-referenced Language Testing is the first volume to create a nexus between the theoretical constructs and practical applications of this new area of language testing.
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'Criterion-referenced Language Testing is an erudite text, with such care given to making the theory and practice of CRT design, development, and analysis accessible to readers that it should serve as the foundation for familiarizing language teaching professionals with this important assessment approach.' Language TestingMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
ELT/ESL
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Paperback (trade)
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Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
494 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-00083-3 (9780521000833)
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Content
Ch1Alternate Paradigms; Ch2 Curriculum-related Testing; Ch 3 Criterion-referenced Test Items; Ch4 Basic Descriptive and Item Statistics for Criterion-referenced Tests; Ch5 Reliability, Dependability, and Unidimensionality; Ch6Validity of Criterion-referenced Tests; Ch 7Administering and Giving Feedback on Criterion-referenced Tests