Language Testing in Practice Designing and Developing Useful Language Tests

Name: Language Testing in Practice Designing and Developing Useful Language Tests
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ISBN: 9780194371483

ISBN-10: 0194371484

ISBN-13: 9780194371483

Edition: 1996

Authors: Lyle F. Bachman, Adrian S. Palmer

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This book relates language testing practice to current views of communicative language teaching and testing. It builds on the theoretical background expounded in Bachman's Fundamental Considerations in Language Testing and examines the design, planning, and organization of tests. The book is divided into three sections which discuss 1) objectives and expectations, the context of language testing, and the abilities to be tested; 2) the process of test development, including blueprints, resources, operationalization, and scoring methods; and 3) ten examples which illustrate the principles discussed in Parts One and Two.

Book details

List price: $63.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/12/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.188



Acknowledgments



Conceptual bases of test development



Objectives and expectations



Test usefulness: Qualities of language tests



Describing tasks: Language use in language tests



Describing language ability: Language use in language tests



Language test development



Overview of test development



Describing, identifying, and defining



Developing a plan for the evaluation of usefulness



Identifying, allocating, and managing resources



Operationalization: Developing test tasks and blueprints



Preparing effective instructions



Scoring method



Language test administration



Illustrative test development projects



High-stakes selection and placement test for students entering a university writing program



Selection/placement test for telephone company employees



Syllabus-based diagnostic achievement test for students in an ESP program



Exit test for students in an adult education conversation course for immigrants



High-stakes ESP screening test for making hiring and training decisions



Placement test for an ESL reading course



Employment/placement/achievement test for immigrants in a government-funded vocational training ESL course



Classroom achievement test for an introductory German course



Classroom achievement test for the reading component of the Korean-English two-way bilingual immersion program



Syllabus-based EFL progress test for primary school children


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