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图书信息

出版社: 帕尔格雷夫·麦克米伦出版公司，外语教学与研究出版社; 第1版 (2010年11月1日)

外文书名: Language Testing and Validation:An Evidence-Based Approach

丛书名: 当代国外语言学与应用语言学文库

平装: 301页

正文语种: 英语

开本: 16

ISBN: 9787513502887, 7513502889

条形码: 9787513502887

尺寸: 22.6 x 15 x 1.4 cm

重量: 381 g

作者简介

作者：（英国）韦尔（Cyril J.Weir）

内容简介

《语言测试与效度验证:基于证据的研究方法》作者Weir教授是世界著名的语言测试专家，撰写了很多在语言测试方面影响较大的著作。《语言测试与效度验证:基于证据的研究方法》是第一部全面、系统地阐述语言测试效度的专著。书中吸收了效度研究的最新成果，提出了基于证据的效度验证的理论框架，并列举了大量研究实例，堪称语言测试效度理论与实践的里程碑之作。

目录

General Editors' Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part 1 Testing as Validity

1 Language Testing Past and Present

1.1 The Cambridge Proficiency Examination 1913-1945:

'The Garden of Eden', 'the pre-scientific era'

1.2 Developments in the 1960s: the move towards a

language-based examination

1.3 The 1975 and 1984 revisions: 'The Promised Land'?

The Nature of Test Validity

Before the Test Event: A Pr/or/Validity Evidence

3.1 Theory-based validity

3.2 Context validity

4 After the Test Event: A Posteriori Validity Evidence

4.1 Scoring validity

4.2 Criterion-related validity

4.3 Consequential validity

Part 2 New Frameworks for Developing and Validating

Tests of Reading, Listening, Speaking and Writing

Introduction

5 Test Takers

5.1 Physical/physiological characteristics:

making accommodations

5.2 Psychological characteristics: affective schemata

5.3 Experiential characteristics: familiarity

6 Context Validity in Action

6.1 Task setting

6.2 Task demands

6.3 Setting and test administration

7 Theory-based Validity in Action

7.1 Reading

7.2 Listening

7.3 Speaking

7.4 Writing

8 Response Formats

8.1 Techniques for testing reading comprehension

8.2 Techniques for testing listening comprehension

8.3 Techniques for testing speaking

8.4 Techniques for testing written production

9 Scoring Validity in Action

9.1 Scoring written production

9.2 Scoring speaking tests

9.3 Internal reliability of receptive tests

9.4 Scores, grading and post-exam validation

procedures

10 External Validities in Action

10.1 Criterion-related validity

10.2 Consequential validity

Part 3 Generating Validity Evidence

Introduction

11 Research Methodologies for Exploring the

Validity of a Test

11.1 An introductory note on research

11.2 A priori validation: investigating the

specification of the construct and the

operationalization of the test

11.3 Establishing context validity

11.4 Establishing theory-based validity evidence

11.5 Establishing scoring validity evidence

11.6 Establishing evidence on a posteriori validities

Part 4 Further Resources in Language Testing

12 Key Sources

12.1 Books

12.2 Journals

12.3 Professional associations

12.4 Principal testing conferences

12.5 Email lists and bulletin boards

12.6 lntemet sites

12.7 Databases

12.8 Statistical packages

Postscript

References

Index