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Evaluating Language Assessments

By Antony John Kunnan

To Be Published November 15th 2013 by Routledge – 272 pages

Series: New Perspectives on Language Assessment Series

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    Description

    The first title in the exciting new series New Perspectives in Language Assessment, this volume offers a sound understanding of the theoretical bases for language assessment and the research methodologies to carry out evaluations of language assessments. The reader will also find timely and pertinent discussions of assessment evaluation in its wider political, economic, social, legal, and ethical contexts. Relevant quantitative and qualitative research methods are illustrated through detailed presentations of key studies.

    Contents

    Part 1: Overview. Chapter 1: Language assessment - contexts. Chapter 2: Assessment evaluation framework. Part 2: Evaluation evidence. Chapter 3: The political, economic, educational, social and cultural, legal and ethical. Chapter 4: Validation - content, criterion, and reliability. Chapter 5: Validation - construct. Chapter 6: Validation - test methods, technology, test scoring. Chapter 7: Absence of bias - content and language. Chapter 8: Access - opportunity to learn and accommodations. Chapter 9: Administration - uniformity, security, scoring, reporting, diagnosis. Part 3: Overall evaluation argument. Chapter 10: Building arguments - possibilities and challenges, monitoring and accreditation.

    Author Bio

    Antony John Kunnan is Professor, California State University, Los Angeles. James E. Purpura is Associate Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University.

    Name: Evaluating Language Assessments (Paperback) – Routledge 
    Description: By Antony John Kunnan. The first title in the exciting new series New Perspectives in Language Assessment, this volume offers a sound understanding of the theoretical bases for language assessment and the research methodologies to carry out evaluations of language assessments...
    Categories: Language & Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Assessment & Testing