Learning about language assessment : dilemmas, decisions, and directions

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bailey, Kathleen M. (Author), Curtis, Andy (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : National Geographic Learning/Heinle, Cengage, Learning , c2015
Edition:Second edition
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260 |a Boston :   |b National Geographic Learning/Heinle, Cengage, Learning ,   |c c2015 
300 |a viii, 376 pages ;   |c 24 cm. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-357) and index 
505 0 |a Assessment as infromation gathering: dilemmas of conflicting purposes -- 2. A framework for analyzing tests: entering a new culture -- 3. Another dilemma: contrasting pairs of concepts -- 4. The role of background knowledge: assessing the receptive skills -- 5. Making meaning: comunicative language testing -- 6. Making meaning: a cloze-knit family -- 7. Measuring meaning: communicative language testing -- 8. Eliciting oral language production: role plays -- 9. Measuring language production: scoring writing samples -- 10. Multiple-choice test and item analysis -- 11. Different paths to testing: alternative assessment -- 12. Specific purpose language testing: the importance of context -- 13. Content-based assessment: integrating language and content -- 14. Self-assessment in language learning 
650 0 |a Language and languages   |x Ability testing 
700 1 |a Curtis, Andy ,   |e author 
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