Language Testing in Practice Designing and Developing Useful Language Tests
by Bachman, Lyle F.; Palmer, Adrian S.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1996-09-12
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
The practice of testing is related here to views on communicative language teaching and testing. The book is divided into three sections: "Conceptual Bases on Language Testing," "Designing and Constructing Useful Language Tests," and "Collecting, Analyzing, and Using Information from Language Tests."
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| Conceptual bases of test development | |
| Objectives and expectations | p. 3 |
| Test usefulness: Qualities of language tests | p. 17 |
| Describing tasks: Language use in language tests | p. 43 |
| Describing language ability: Language use in language tests | p. 61 |
| Language test development | |
| Overview of test development | p. 85 |
| Describing, identifying, and defining | p. 95 |
| Developing a plan for the evaluation of usefulness | p. 133 |
| Identifying, allocating, and managing resources | p. 157 |
| Operationalization: Developing test tasks and blueprints | p. 170 |
| Preparing effective instructions | p. 181 |
| Scoring method | p. 193 |
| Language test administration | p. 231 |
| Illustrative test development projects | |
| High-stakes selection and placement test for students entering a university writing program | p. 253 |
| Selection/placement test for telephone company employees | p. 285 |
| Syllabus-based diagnostic achievement test for students in an ESP program | p. 291 |
| Exit test for students in an adult education conversation course for immigrants | p. 298 |
| High-stakes ESP screening test for making hiring and training decisions | p. 308 |
| Placement test for an ESL reading course | p. 317 |
| Employment/placement/achievement test for immigrants in a government-funded vocational training ESL course | p. 325 |
| Classroom achievement test for an introductory German course | p. 335 |
| Classroom achievement test for the reading component of the Korean-English two-way bilingual immersion program | p. 345 |
| Syllabus-based EFL progress test for primary school children | p. 354 |
| References | p. 366 |
| Index | p. 371 |
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