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Assessing academic English : testing English proficiency 1950-2005 : the IELTS solution / Alan Davies.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in language testing ; v. 23.Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007Description: xiv, 456 p.; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780521542500 (pbk.)
  • 0521542502 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 428.0076 22
Contents:
1. The 1950s and 1960s: the English Proficiency Test Battery -- 2. Communicative interlude: the story of ELTS -- 3. Retreat from revolution: 1981 - 87 -- 4. The ELTS revision plan: 1987 - 89 -- 5. The development of IELTS - a pragmatic compromise -- Appendices -- 1.1. Chronological overview of the history of academic -- English assessment and the development -- of ELTS /IELTS -- 2.1. English Proficiency Test Battery (EPTB) - British -- Council Information Leaflet -- 2.2. English Proficiency Test Battery (EPTB) - Short -- Version Form A, 1964 - Part 1 and Part 2 -- 2.3. English Proficiency Test Battery (EPTB) - Short -- Version Form A, 1964 - Scoring Instructions -- 3.1. A Communication Needs Profile of Overseas -- Undergraduate Students in UK, 1977 -- 3.2. Example of Content Specification and Item -- Analysis for the ELTS test M1 (Social Studies): -- Mark II Version -- 4.1. English Language Testing Service (ELTS) -- Specifications, 1978 -- 4.2. Notes on the English Language Testing -- Service (ELTS), 1976 - 80 supplied by -- Brendan J Carroll, 18 August 2004 -- 5.1. Notes to Registrars and Secretaries, 1979 -- 6.1. ELTS Specimen Materials Booklet -- 6.2. Versions of ELTS, 1980 -- 6.3. ELTS Administrators' Manual, 1986 -- 7.1. Introduction to ELTS Validation Report, -- 8.1. English Language Battery (ELBA) -- 9.1. Test of English for Educational Purposes (TEEP) -- 10.1. ELTS Revision - Specifications for M -- 11.1. Proposed Structure of IELTS Tests, 1989 -- 12.1. An Introduction to IELTS, 1989 -- 12.2. IELTS User Handbook, 1989 -- 12.3. Versions of IELTS, 1989.
Summary: "The volume offers an explanatory account of the progress of academic language proficiency testing in the UK (and later Australia), from the British Council's English Proficiency Test Battery (EPTB), through the revolutionary English Language Testing Service (ELTS) to the present solution of IELTS. The three stages of academic language testing in the UK over the last 50 years move from grammar through real life to features of language use. At the same time, comparison of predictive validities suggests that all three measures account for very similar shares of the variance (about 10%) and that therefore the choice of an academic language proficiency test is determined only in part by predictive validity: other factors such as test delivery, test renewal in response to fashion, research and impact on stakeholders, and assessment of all four language skills are also important."--Publisher's website.
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1. The 1950s and 1960s: the English Proficiency Test Battery -- 2. Communicative interlude: the story of ELTS -- 3. Retreat from revolution: 1981 - 87 -- 4. The ELTS revision plan: 1987 - 89 -- 5. The development of IELTS - a pragmatic compromise -- Appendices -- 1.1. Chronological overview of the history of academic -- English assessment and the development -- of ELTS /IELTS -- 2.1. English Proficiency Test Battery (EPTB) - British -- Council Information Leaflet -- 2.2. English Proficiency Test Battery (EPTB) - Short -- Version Form A, 1964 - Part 1 and Part 2 -- 2.3. English Proficiency Test Battery (EPTB) - Short -- Version Form A, 1964 - Scoring Instructions -- 3.1. A Communication Needs Profile of Overseas -- Undergraduate Students in UK, 1977 -- 3.2. Example of Content Specification and Item -- Analysis for the ELTS test M1 (Social Studies): -- Mark II Version -- 4.1. English Language Testing Service (ELTS) -- Specifications, 1978 -- 4.2. Notes on the English Language Testing -- Service (ELTS), 1976 - 80 supplied by -- Brendan J Carroll, 18 August 2004 -- 5.1. Notes to Registrars and Secretaries, 1979 -- 6.1. ELTS Specimen Materials Booklet -- 6.2. Versions of ELTS, 1980 -- 6.3. ELTS Administrators' Manual, 1986 -- 7.1. Introduction to ELTS Validation Report, -- 8.1. English Language Battery (ELBA) -- 9.1. Test of English for Educational Purposes (TEEP) -- 10.1. ELTS Revision - Specifications for M -- 11.1. Proposed Structure of IELTS Tests, 1989 -- 12.1. An Introduction to IELTS, 1989 -- 12.2. IELTS User Handbook, 1989 -- 12.3. Versions of IELTS, 1989.

"The volume offers an explanatory account of the progress of academic language proficiency testing in the UK (and later Australia), from the British Council's English Proficiency Test Battery (EPTB), through the revolutionary English Language Testing Service (ELTS) to the present solution of IELTS. The three stages of academic language testing in the UK over the last 50 years move from grammar through real life to features of language use. At the same time, comparison of predictive validities suggests that all three measures account for very similar shares of the variance (about 10%) and that therefore the choice of an academic language proficiency test is determined only in part by predictive validity: other factors such as test delivery, test renewal in response to fashion, research and impact on stakeholders, and assessment of all four language skills are also important."--Publisher's website.

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