Encyclopaedia of Language and Education: Language Testing and Assessment v. 7

Part 1 Testing language skills - testing and assessment in the first language: the testing of reading in the mother tongue, D. Vincent; the assessment of writing in the mother tongue, A.C. Purves; the testing of mother tongue listening skills, R.N. Bostrom; the testing of first language speaking skills, D.L. Rubin, G. Schramm; testing and assessment in a second language; the testing of reading in a second language, C.J. Weir; the testing of writing in a second language, A. Cumming; the testing of listening in a second language, G. Buck; the testing of speaking in a second language, G. Fulcher; the testing of grammar in a foreign language, P. Rea-Dickins; assessing vocabulary in a second language, J. Read. Part 2 Methods of testing and assessment: language for specific purposes testing, D. Douglas; the integrated testing of a second language, J.A. Lewkowicz; performance testing, T. McNamara; computer-based testing, P. Gruba, C. Corbel; the assessment of young learners of English as a foreign language, P. Rea-Dickins, S. Rixon; the second language assessment of minority children, P. McKay; self assessment of foreign and second language proficiency, M. Oscarson; writers' assessment and evaluation of their texts, A. Piolat; the assessment of language learning aptitude, E.C. Cascallar; the assessment of speech and language disorders, R. Baker, H.J. Chenery. Part 3 The quantitative and qualitative validation of tests: recent advances in quantitative test analysis, L.F. Bachman; Rasch measurement in latent trait models, A. Pollitt; generalizability theory, L.F. Bachman; criterion referenced testing, B.K. Lynch, F. Davidson; qualitative approaches to test validation, J. Banerjee. Part 4 The ethics and effects of testing and assessment: impact and washback in language testing, D. Wall; language testing standards, F. Davidson et al; accountability in language assessment, B.N. Peirce; ethics in language testing; L. Hamp-Lyons.