Designing and Analyzing Language Tests

Name: Designing and Analyzing Language Tests
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ISBN: 9780194422970

ISBN-10: 0194422976

ISBN-13: 9780194422970

Edition: 2011

Authors: Nathan Carr, Nathan Carr

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Book details

List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/10/2011
Binding: Mixed Media
Pages: 360
Size: 8.18" wide x 10.07" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 2.090
Language: English

Nathan T. Carr is Assistant Professor, TESOL Program, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, California State University, Fullerton. His research interests include web-based language testing, test validation, and the role of rating scales in writing assessment.



Preface


Introduction



Why and What are we Testing?



Tasks: The Building Blocks of Tests



Planning and Designing the Test: Context and Purpose, and Overall Structure



Writing the Specifications for Individual Test Tasks



Writing the Test: Creating the Tasks you have Planned



Consistency of Measurement: Reliability and Dependability



Rating Scales for Extended Production Tasks



Validation



Test Administration



Other Important Topics Worth Books of their Own



How to organize data in Excel



Visual representations of data



Calculating descriptive statistics in Excel



Correlation



Item analysis for norm-referenced testing



Item analysis for criterion-referenced testing



Basic distractor analysis for multiple-choice items



Reliability scoring consistency for norm-referenced tests



Dependability: Scoring or classification consistency for criterion-referenced tests


Glossary


Bibliography


Index