The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing (Hardcover, 2 ed)

List of tables List of figures List of contributors Acknowledgements Editorial. Glenn Fulcher and Luke Harding Section 1: Validity Chapter 1: Conceptions of validity. Carol A. Chapelle and Hye-won Lee Chapter 2: Articulating a validity argument. Michael Kane Chapter 3: Inference and prediction in language testing. Steven J. Ross Section 2: The Uses of Language Testing Chapter 4: Social dimensions of language testing. Richard Young Chapter 5: Designing language tests for specific purposes. Carol Moder and Gene Halleck Chapter 6: Revisiting language assessment for immigration and citizenship. Antony John Kunnan Section 3: Classroom Assessment and Washback Chapter 7: Classroom based assessment. Janna Fox, Nwara Abdulhamid and Carolyn Turner Chapter 8: Washback: looking backwards and forwards. Liying Cheng and Nasreen Sultana Chapter 9: Assessing young learners. Yuko Goto Butler Chapter 10: Dynamic assessment. Marta Anton and Prospero Garcia Chapter 11: Diagnostic assessment in language classrooms. Eunice Jang and Jeanne Sinclair Section 4: Assessing the Language Skills Chapter 12: Assessing speaking. Fumiyo Nakatsuhara, Nahal Khabbazbashi and Chihiro Inoue Chapter 13: Assessing listening. Elvis Wagner Chapter 14: Assessing writing. Ute Knoch Chapter 15: Assessing reading. Tineke Brunfaut Section 5: Test Design and Administration Chapter 16: Test specifications. Jin Yan Chapter 17: Evidence-centred design in language testing. Chengbin Yin and Robery Mislevy Chapter 18: Accommodations and universal design. Jamal Abedi Chapter 19: Rater and interlocutor training. Larry Davis Section 6: Writing Items and Tasks Chapter 20: Item writing and item writers. Dong-il Shin Chapter 21: Writing integrated tasks. Lia Plakans Chapter 22: Test-taking strategies and task design. Andrew Cohen Section 7: Prototyping and Field Tests Chapter 23: Prototyping new item types. Susan Nissan and Elizabeth Park Chapter 24: Pre-operational testing. Benjamin Kremmel, Kathrin Eberharter and Franz Holzknecht Chapter 25: Piloting vocabulary tests. John Read Section 8: Measurement Theory in Language Testing Chapter 26: Classical test theory. J. D. Brown Chapter 27: Item Response Theory and Many-Facet Rasch Measurement. Gary Ockey Chapter 28: Reliability and dependability. Xun Yan and Jason Fan Chapter 29: Scoring performance tests. Evelina Galaczi and Gad Lim Section 9: Technology in Language Testing Chapter 30: Validity and the automated scoring of performance tests. Xiaoming Xi Chapter 31: Computer-based testing. Yasuyo Sawaki Chapter 32: Corpus linguistics and language testing. Sara Cushing Section 10: Ethics, Fairness and Policy Chapter 33: Ethics and fairness. F. Scott Walters Chapter 34: Standards in language proficiency measurement. Bart Deygers Chapter 35: Quality management in test production and administration. Nick Saville and Sarah McElwee Epilogue Chapter 36: Language testing: where are we heading? Luke Harding and Glenn Fulcher Index