Criterion-referenced language testing /
Brown, James Dean,
Criterion-referenced language testing / James Dean Brown, Thom Hudson. - xvi, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Cambridge applied linguistics . - Cambridge applied linguistics series. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Alternate paradigms -- Curriculum-related testing -- Criterion-referenced test items -- Basic descriptive and item statistics for criterion-referenced tests -- Reliability, dependability, and unidimensionality -- Validity of criterion-referenced tests -- Administering, giving feedback, and reporting on criterion-referenced tests -- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Series editors' preface -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Alternate paradigms -- Curriculum-related testing -- Criterion-referenced test items -- Basic descriptive and item statistics for criterion-referenced tests -- Reliability, dependability, and unidimensionality -- Validity of criterion-referenced tests -- Administering, giving feedback, and reporting on criterion-referenced tests -- References -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
"This original collection revisits and re-evaluates Chomsky's classic competence/performance distinction from a wide variety of perspectives and areas of expertise. The discussion is placed within a broad framework, taking account both of a view of language as a societal construct and a view of language as internal, developing within the mind and/or brain. Renowned experts in the fields of lexis, sociolinguistics, connectionism Universal Grammar, language testing and interlanguage draw together ideas from the most recent developments in second language learning and psychological theory. Germane to their debate is the question of whether it is helpful, or in principle possible, to draw a distinction between competence and performance in second language learning. The volume will be of interest to teachers, researchers and students of applied linguistics, education and general linguistics.; ; ; RECORD: .b10980210; URL: http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1110/2011381885-d.html; HTML TOC:; ; ; ; Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2011381885; ; ; ; ; ; Publisher description for Criterion-referenced language testing / James Dean Brown, Thom Hudson.; ; ; Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog; Over the past decade criterion-referenced testing (CRT) has become an emerging issue in language assessment. Most language testing books have hitherto focused almost exclusively on norm-referenced testing, whereby test takers' scores are interpreted with reference to the performance of other test takers, and have ignored CRT, an approach that examines the level of knowledge of a specific domain of target behaviours. It is designed to comprehensively address the wide variety of CRT and decision-making needs that more and more language-teaching professionals must address in their daily work. Criterion-referenced Language Testing is the first volume to create a nexus between the theoretical constructs and practical applications of this new area of language testing."--Publisher description.
0521806283 9780521806282 0521000831 9780521000833
2011381885
Criterion-referenced tests
Language and languages--Ability testing
LB3060.32.C74 / B756 2002
418.0076
Criterion-referenced language testing / James Dean Brown, Thom Hudson. - xvi, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Cambridge applied linguistics . - Cambridge applied linguistics series. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Alternate paradigms -- Curriculum-related testing -- Criterion-referenced test items -- Basic descriptive and item statistics for criterion-referenced tests -- Reliability, dependability, and unidimensionality -- Validity of criterion-referenced tests -- Administering, giving feedback, and reporting on criterion-referenced tests -- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Series editors' preface -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Alternate paradigms -- Curriculum-related testing -- Criterion-referenced test items -- Basic descriptive and item statistics for criterion-referenced tests -- Reliability, dependability, and unidimensionality -- Validity of criterion-referenced tests -- Administering, giving feedback, and reporting on criterion-referenced tests -- References -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
"This original collection revisits and re-evaluates Chomsky's classic competence/performance distinction from a wide variety of perspectives and areas of expertise. The discussion is placed within a broad framework, taking account both of a view of language as a societal construct and a view of language as internal, developing within the mind and/or brain. Renowned experts in the fields of lexis, sociolinguistics, connectionism Universal Grammar, language testing and interlanguage draw together ideas from the most recent developments in second language learning and psychological theory. Germane to their debate is the question of whether it is helpful, or in principle possible, to draw a distinction between competence and performance in second language learning. The volume will be of interest to teachers, researchers and students of applied linguistics, education and general linguistics.; ; ; RECORD: .b10980210; URL: http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1110/2011381885-d.html; HTML TOC:; ; ; ; Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2011381885; ; ; ; ; ; Publisher description for Criterion-referenced language testing / James Dean Brown, Thom Hudson.; ; ; Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog; Over the past decade criterion-referenced testing (CRT) has become an emerging issue in language assessment. Most language testing books have hitherto focused almost exclusively on norm-referenced testing, whereby test takers' scores are interpreted with reference to the performance of other test takers, and have ignored CRT, an approach that examines the level of knowledge of a specific domain of target behaviours. It is designed to comprehensively address the wide variety of CRT and decision-making needs that more and more language-teaching professionals must address in their daily work. Criterion-referenced Language Testing is the first volume to create a nexus between the theoretical constructs and practical applications of this new area of language testing."--Publisher description.
0521806283 9780521806282 0521000831 9780521000833
2011381885
Criterion-referenced tests
Language and languages--Ability testing
LB3060.32.C74 / B756 2002
418.0076