Description: This publication highlights the need for test developers to provide clear explanations of the ability constructs which underpin tests offered in the public domain. An explanation is increasingly required, if the validity of test score interpretation and use are to be supported both logically, and with empirical evidence. The book demonstates the application of a comprehensive test validation framework which adopts a socio-cognitive perspective. The framework embraces six core components which reflect the practical nature and quality of an actual testing event. It examines Cambridge ESOL writing tasks from the following perspectives: Test Taker, Cognitive Validity, Context Validity, Scoring Validity, Criterion-related Validity and Consequential Validity. The authors show how an understanding and analysis of the framework and its components in relation to specific writing tests can assist test developers to operationalise their tests more effectively, especially in relation to criterial distinctions across test levels.
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Number of Pages: 360 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Examining Writing : Research and Practice in Assessing Second Language Writing
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Year: 2007
Subject: English As a Second Language, TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) & IELTS (International English Language Testing System), Study & Teaching
Item Height: 1 in
Item Weight: 20.4 Oz
Type: Language Course
Subject Area: Foreign Language Study, Study Aids, Language Arts & Disciplines
Author: Stuart D. Shaw
Item Length: 9 in
Series: Studies in Language Testing Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Perfect
