Learning about language assessment : dilemmas, decisions, and directions
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| Language: | English |
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Pacific Grove [Calif.] :
Heinle & Heinle Publishers ,
c1998
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Table of Contents:
- 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