Designing and analyzing language tests

Author(s)

    • Carr, Nathan T.

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Designing and analyzing language tests

Nathan T. Carr

(Oxford handbooks for language teachers)

Oxford University Press, 2011

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Language teachers often have to develop or choose tests or other assessments for their classes without any training. With this book and CD-ROM you learn how to choose from ready-made tests, or to adapt existing tests to better meet your needs. It gives you the tools you need to write your own tests and to analyze them. The book is organized in two Parts: Part 1 focuses on language assessment theory, and guidance on developing and administering tests. Part 2 introduces the use of Excel for analysing language test data.

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Chapter 1 Why and What are we Testing? Chapter 2 Tasks: The Building Blocks of Tests Chapter 3 Planning and Designing the Test: Context and Purpose, and Overall Structure Chapter 4 Writing the Specifications for Individual Test Tasks Chapter 5 Writing the Test: Creating the Tasks you have Planned Chapter 6 Consistency of Measurement: Reliability and Dependability Chapter 7 Rating Scales for Extended Production Tasks Chapter 8 Validation Chapter 9 Test Administration Chapter 10 Other Important Topics Worth Books of their Own Chapter 11 How to organize data in Excel Chapter 12 Visual representations of data Chapter 13 Calculating descriptive statistics in Excel Chapter 14 Correlation Chapter 15 Item analysis for norm-referenced testing Chapter 16 Item analysis for criterion-referenced testing Chapter 17 Basic distractor analysis for multiple-choice items Chapter 18 Reliability scoring consistency for norm-referenced tests Chapter 19 Dependability: Scoring or classification consistency for criterion-referenced tests Glossary Bibliography Index

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Details

  • NCID
    BB07506698
  • ISBN
    • 9780194422970
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Oxford
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxii, 360 p.
  • Size
    26 cm.
  • Attached Material
    1 CD-ROM (12 cm.)
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