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Learning about language assessment : dilemmas, decisions, and directions / Kathleen M. Bailey.

By: Bailey, Kathleen M.
Contributor(s): Freeman, Donald [(series ed.)].
Series: Newbury House teacher development ; A TeacherSource / series editor : Donald Freeman. Publisher: Pacific Grove [Calif.] : Heinle & Heinle Publishers, c1998Description: xiii, 258 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0838466885.Subject(s): Language and languages -- Ability testingDDC classification: 418.0076
Contents:
Acknowledgements. - Preface. - Author's preface. - Introduction : Twenty questions. - Chapter 1 : Assessment as information gathering. - Chapter 2 : Analyzing tests : the case of dictation. - Chapter 3 : Conflicting purposes of assessment. - Chapter 4 : The role of background knowledge in the assessment of receptive skills. - Chapter 5 : A close-knit family. - Chapter 6 : Another dilemma : contrasting pairs of concepts. - Chapter 7 : Some useful statistical tools. - Chapter 8 : The correlation family. - Chapter 9 : Multiple-choice tests and item analyses. - Chapter 10 : Measuring meaning : dictocomps and strip stories. - Chapter 11 : Eliciting speech samples in role plays. - Chapter 12 : Three approaches to scoring writing samples. - Chapter 13 : "Alternative" assessments : performance tests. - Chapter 14 : Self-assessment in language learning. - Glossary. - References.
Summary: Learning About Language Assessment: Dilemmas, Decisions, and Directions provides a practical analysis of language assessment theory and accessible explanations of the statistics involved. - Back cover
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Acknowledgements. - Preface. - Author's preface. - Introduction : Twenty questions. - Chapter 1 : Assessment as information gathering. - Chapter 2 : Analyzing tests : the case of dictation. - Chapter 3 : Conflicting purposes of assessment. - Chapter 4 : The role of background knowledge in the assessment of receptive skills. - Chapter 5 : A close-knit family. - Chapter 6 : Another dilemma : contrasting pairs of concepts. - Chapter 7 : Some useful statistical tools. - Chapter 8 : The correlation family. - Chapter 9 : Multiple-choice tests and item analyses. - Chapter 10 : Measuring meaning : dictocomps and strip stories. - Chapter 11 : Eliciting speech samples in role plays. - Chapter 12 : Three approaches to scoring writing samples. - Chapter 13 : "Alternative" assessments : performance tests. - Chapter 14 : Self-assessment in language learning. - Glossary. - References.

Learning About Language Assessment: Dilemmas, Decisions, and Directions provides a practical analysis of language assessment theory and accessible explanations of the statistics involved. - Back cover

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