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Language testing in practice : designing and developing useful language tests / Lyle F. Bachman and Adrian S. Palmer.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford applied linguisticsPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996Description: vi, 377 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0194371484
  • 9780194371483
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 418.0076 21
LOC classification:
  • P53.4 .B331 1996
Contents:
Part One. Conceptual bases of test development -- 1. Objectives and expectations -- 2. Test usefulness: Qualities of language tests -- 3. Describing tasks: Language use in language tests -- 4. Describing language ability: Language use in language tests -- Part Two. Language test development -- 5. Overview of test development -- 6. Describing, identifying, and defining -- 7. Developing a plan for the evaluation of usefulness -- 8. Identifying, allocating, and managing resources -- 9. Operationalization: Developing test tasks and blueprints -- 10. Preparing effective instructions -- 11. Scoring method -- 12. Language test administration -- Part Three. Illustrative test development projects -- Project 1 High-stakes selection and placement test for students entering a university writing program -- Project 2 Selection / placement test for telephone company employees -- Project 3 Syllabus-based diagnostic achievement test for students in an ESP program -- Project 4 Exit test for students in an adult education conversation course for immigrants -- Project 5 High-stakes ESP screening test for making hiring and training decisions -- Project 6 Placement test for an ESL reading course -- Project 7 Employment / placement / achievement test for immigrants in a government-funded vocational training ESL course -- Project 8 Classroom achievement tests for an introductory German course -- Project 9 Classroom achievement test for the reading component of the Korean-English two-way bilingual immersion program -- Project 10 Syllabus-based EFL progress test for primary school children.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 366-370) and index.

Part One. Conceptual bases of test development -- 1. Objectives and expectations -- 2. Test usefulness: Qualities of language tests -- 3. Describing tasks: Language use in language tests -- 4. Describing language ability: Language use in language tests -- Part Two. Language test development -- 5. Overview of test development -- 6. Describing, identifying, and defining -- 7. Developing a plan for the evaluation of usefulness -- 8. Identifying, allocating, and managing resources -- 9. Operationalization: Developing test tasks and blueprints -- 10. Preparing effective instructions -- 11. Scoring method -- 12. Language test administration -- Part Three. Illustrative test development projects -- Project 1 High-stakes selection and placement test for students entering a university writing program -- Project 2 Selection / placement test for telephone company employees -- Project 3 Syllabus-based diagnostic achievement test for students in an ESP program -- Project 4 Exit test for students in an adult education conversation course for immigrants -- Project 5 High-stakes ESP screening test for making hiring and training decisions -- Project 6 Placement test for an ESL reading course -- Project 7 Employment / placement / achievement test for immigrants in a government-funded vocational training ESL course -- Project 8 Classroom achievement tests for an introductory German course -- Project 9 Classroom achievement test for the reading component of the Korean-English two-way bilingual immersion program -- Project 10 Syllabus-based EFL progress test for primary school children.

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