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Expanding Tactics for Listening 3rd edition: Worksheets and Audio Scripts Book
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Expanding Tactics for Listening 3rd edition: Worksheets and Audio Scripts BookA classroom-proven, American English listening skills course for upper secondary, college and university students. Tactics for Listening Third Edition is an activity-rich listening course with proven success in building skills in listening and conversation. Now with Tactics for Testing, it provides plenty of practice in testing and exam techniques. The result is confident listeners – and exam success. This three-level American English listening course uses short chunks and practical, relevant activities to engage and motivate students. The new Testing Program and Resource CD-ROM helps you prepare your students for TOEIC®, STEP-EIKEN®, IELTS®, TOEFL® and GEPT® exams.
 
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Exam Essentials Practice Tests: English First 1
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Exam Essentials is our major British English exam preparation series combining exam preparation, practice, and tips for the revised Cambridge English exams. This effective combination of testing and teaching has proved a popular formula with teachers and students.
Audio added Thanks to yeyes
 
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Applying Item Response Theory in Language Test Item Bank Building
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Applying Item Response Theory in Language Test Item Bank Building

Item Response Theory, though it has become a widely recognized tool in language testing research, is still not used frequently in practical language assessment projects. This book intends to provide a theoretical overview as well as to give practical guidance concerning the application of IRT in item bank building in a language testing context by presenting a particular project in a higher education setting.
 
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Standardized Testing in Schools
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Standardized Testing in SchoolsThis book gives readers a balanced look at the issue of standardized testing in schools and its surrounding arguments. Standardized Testing in Schools familiarizes readers with the No Child Left Behind Act, the history of testing in schools, standards and scoring, test writing, and the effects of testing on education as a whole. In addition, issues surrounding cheating among students, teachers, states, and districts are included, as well as public opinion. Color photos and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-follow text. Features include a timeline, facts, additional resources, web sites, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index.
 
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The Test: Why Our Schools are Obsessed with Standardized Testing–But You Don’t Have to Be
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The Test explores all sides of this problem—where these tests came from, their limitations and flaws, and ultimately what parents, teachers, and concerned citizens can do. It recounts the shocking history and tempestuous politics of testing and borrows strategies from fields as diverse as games, neuroscience, and ancient philosophy to help children cope. It presents the stories of families, teachers, and schools maneuvering within and beyond the existing educational system, playing and winning the testing game.
 
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