By Cyril J. Weir (auth.)
Tests for the size of language skills has to be built in accordance with a coherent validity framework according to the most recent advancements in idea and perform. This cutting edge e-book, by way of an international authority on language checking out, bargains with all key elements of language try layout and implementation. It offers a highway map to powerful trying out according to the most recent ways to check validation. A e-book for all MA scholars in utilized Linguistics or TESOL, and for pro language teachers
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In this way we hope to enhance your competence in evaluating, and also designing, appropriate tests and test items. 4). These are intended to provide a map for the more detailed descriptions of each characteristic in the frameworks that follow in Chapters 5–10. The intention is to show graphically how the pieces fit together temporally as well as conceptually. The arrows indicate the principal direction(s) of any hypothesized relationships: what has an effect on what. The timeline runs from top to bottom: before the test is finalized, then when it is administered, and finally what happens after the test event.
The language tester can empirically investigate after the test event what language skills have been operationalized through statistical analysis of the data generated to determine underlying patterns, and through criterionrelated studies to relate information produced by this test to that produced by others with known properties. In the past, relatively little attention was paid to the non-statistical aspects of theory-based validity. In the earlier psychometric–structuralist approach to language testing (see Chapter 1) the prevailing theoretical paradigm lent itself easily to testing discrete elements of the target language (lexical or grammatical items) and little need was seen for much a priori deliberation on the match between theory and test.
In the 1990 Cambridge ESOL FCE/TOEFL comparison study, Spolsky (1995: 340), referring to Bachman et al. (1988: 61–2), describes how: One of the first questions tackled by Bachman and his colleagues concerned the statistical characteristics of the two test batteries . . There were three potential sources of measurement error. For the objective, discrete-point tests in the reading comprehension paper and for parts of the use of English and listening comprehension papers, the appropriate question was internal consistency.