Learning about language assessment : dilemmas, decisions, and directions

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bailey, Kathleen M. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Pacific Grove [Calif.] : Heinle & Heinle Publishers , c1998
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245 1 0 |a Learning about language assessment :   |b dilemmas, decisions, and directions   |c Kathleen M. Bailey 
260 |a Pacific Grove [Calif.] :   |b Heinle & Heinle Publishers ,   |c c1998 
300 |a xiii, 258 p. ;   |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a 1. Assessment as information gathering -- 2. Analyzing tests: the case of dictation -- 3. Conflicting purposes of assessment -- 4. The role of background knowledge in the assessment of receptive skills -- 5. A cloze-knit family -- 6. Another dilemma: contrasting pairs of concepts -- 7. Some useful statistical tools -- 8. The correlation family -- 9. Multiple-choice tests and item analyses -- 10. Measuring meaning: dictocomps and strip stories -- 11. Eliciting speech samples in role plays -- 12. Three approaches to scoring writing samples -- 13. "Alternative" assessments: performance tests -- 14. Self-assessment in language learning 
650 0 |a Language and languages   |x Ability testing 
999 |a 1000122725   |b Book   |c OPEN SHELF (30 DAYS)   |e Gong Badak Campus