Validation in Language Assessment - Selected Papers from the 17th Language Testing Research Colloquium, Long Beach
Validation in Language Assessment contributes to the variety of validation approaches and analytical and interpretive techniques only recently adopted by language assessment researchers. Featuring selected papers from the 17th Language Testing Research Colloquium, the volume presents diverse approaches with an international perspective on validation in language assessment.
A Guide to Language Testing - Development, Evaluation, Research
This book was originally published in 1987, this post here is the edition reprinted by Foreign language teaching and research press in China with Chinese scholars' introduction. Except several pages of introduction in Chinese at the beginning of this book, the rest of the book is the same as the original edition. As the title indicates, this book is an excellent guide to language testing. Henning makes great efforts to explain technical testing terms in very plain language. He covers almost all important aspects in testing, especially reliability and validity. His analysis is clear, detailed and thorough.
Language Testing is a fully peer-reviewed, international, quarterly journal that publishes original research and review articles on language testing and assessment. It provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and information between people working in the fields of first and second language testing and assessment. This includes researchers and practitioners in EFL and ESL testing, and assessment in child language acquisition and language pathology. In addition, special attention is focused on issues of testing theory, experimental investigations, and the following up of practical implications.
Psychological testing Principles, applications, and issues
"Psychological Testing: Principles, Applications, and Issues, Seventh Edition is organized into three parts. Part I focuses on the core concepts that affect the evaluation of all tests. Part II..."
Practical Language Testing equips you with the skills, knowledge, and principles necessary to understand and construct language tests.This intensely practical book gives guidelines on the design of assessments within the classroom, and provides the necessary tools to analyze and improve assessments, as well as deal with alignment to externally imposed standards. Testing is situated both within the classroom and within the larger social context, and readers are provided the knowledge necessary to make realistic and fair decisions about the use and implementation of tests.
