语言测试实践 英文PDF电子书下载

PART ONE Conceptual bases of test development 3

1 Objectives and expectations 3

2 Test usefulness:Qualities of language tests 17

3 Describing tasks:Language use in language tests 43

4 Describing language ability:Language use in language tests 61

PART TWO Language test development 85

5 Overview of test development 85

6 Describing,identifying,and defining 95

7 Developing a plan for the evaluation of usefulness 133

8 Identifying,allocating,and managing resources 157

9 Operationalization:Developing test tasks and blueprints 171

10 Preparing effective instructions 181

11 Scoring method 193

12 Language test administration 231

PART THREE Illustrative test development projects 253

Project 1 High-stakes selection and placement test for students entering a university writing program 253

Project 2 Selection/placement test for telephone company employees 285

Project 3 Sylla bus-based diagnostic achievement test for students in an ESP program 291

Project 4 Exit test for students in an adult education conversation course for immigrants 298

Project 5 High-stakes ESP screening test for making hiring and training decisions 308

Project 6 Placement test for an ESL reading course 317

Project 7 Employment/placement/achievement test for immigrants in a government-funded vocational training ESL course 325

Project 8 Classroom achievement test for an introductory German course 335

Project 9 Classroom achievement test for the reading component of the Korean-English two-way bilingual immersion program 345

Project 10 Syllabus-based EFL progress test for primary school children 354

References 366

Index 371