Second language testing for student evaluation and classroom research

Second Language Testing for Student Evaluation and Classroom Research and its accompanying Student Workbook are introductory-level resources for classroom teachers of all levels of experience, and early-career graduate students in applied linguistics, TESOL, and second/foreign language teaching prog...

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Main Authors Gorsuch, Greta (Author), Griffee, Dale (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing Inc., 2018.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806608461
DOI10.1108/978-1-64113-013-4
Physical Description1 online resource (xix, 371 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Testing as we know it
  • Chapter 1. Norm-referenced tests
  • Chapter 2. Test item formats
  • Chapter 3. Teacher-made tests
  • Chapter 4. The role of theory in second language testing
  • Chapter 5. Performance tests
  • Chapter 6. Scales, distributions, and descriptive statistics
  • Chapter 7. Correlation
  • Chapter 8. Reliability
  • Chapter 9. Test validity and validation
  • Chapter 10. Standard setting and cut scores
  • Chapter 11. Tests and teaching
  • Chapter 12. Tests and classroom research. Appendices. Glossary
  • References
  • About the authors.