Synopses & Reviews
The assessment of language learners is having a growing impact in English language teaching and applied linguistics. A formal evaluation of students' writing abilities is important for language teachers in order to assess the pedagogical needs of their students. While there has been a considerable body of work undertaken on assessing the writing abilities of native speakers, the issues surrounding the assessment of second language learners' writing abilities are still emerging. At present, no one volume has explored these issues and their implications for language teaching practitioners wishing to evaluate their students' writing. This book outlines in an accessible manner the major tenets of research in the field and provide language teachers with guidelines to design and develop suitable listening assessment tasks for their students.
Synopsis
This book enables practitioners to apply statistics effectively to the development and use of language assessments. The Workbook and CD contain datasets from actual language assessments and data analysis exercises.
Synopsis
A formal evaluation of students' writing abilities is important for language teachers in order to assess the pedagogical needs of their students. At present, no one volume has explored these issues and their implications for language teaching practitioners wishing to evaluate their students' writing. This book outlines in an accessible manner the major tenets of research in the field and provide language teachers with guidelines to design and develop suitable listening assessment tasks for their students.
Synopsis
This book provides language teachers with guidelines to develop suitable listening tests.
Table of Contents
1 Basic concepts and terms 2 Describing test scores 3 Investigating relationships among different sets of test scores 4 Analyzing test tasks 5 Investigating reliability for norm-referenced tests 6 Investigating reliability for criterion-referenced tests 7 Stating hypotheses and making statistical inferences 8 Tests of statistical significance 9 Investigating validity 10 Reporting and interpreting test scores