Designing and Analyzing Language Tests with 1 CD

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Designing and Analyzing Tests with accompanying CD-ROM gives you a solid grounding in language assessment theory, practical guidance on developing and administering tests, and shows you how to use Excel for statistical analysis of procedures.Language teachers often have to develop or choose tests or other assessments for their classes without any training. With this book and CD-ROM you learn how to choose from ready-made tests, or to adapt existing tests to better meet your needs. It gives you the tools you need to write your own tests and to analyze them. The book is organized in two Parts: Part 1 focuses on language assessment theory, and guidance on developing and administering tests. Part 2 introduces the use of Excel for analyzing language test data.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Why and What are we Testing?
• Chapter 2 Tasks: The Building Blocks of Tests
• Chapter 3 Planning and Designing the Test: Context and Purpose, and Overall Structure
• Chapter 4 Writing the Specifications for Individual Test Tasks
• Chapter 5 Writing the Test: Creating the Tasks you have Planned
• Chapter 6 Consistency of Measurement: Reliability and Dependability
• Chapter 7 Rating Scales for Extended Production Tasks
• Chapter 8 Validation
• Chapter 9 Test Administration
• Chapter 10 Other Important Topics Worth Books of their Own
• Chapter 11 How to organize data in Excel
• Chapter 12 Visual representations of data
• Chapter 13 Calculating descriptive statistics in Excel
• Chapter 14 Correlation
• Chapter 15 Item analysis for norm-referenced testing
• Chapter 16 Item analysis for criterion-referenced testing
• Chapter 17 Basic distractor analysis for multiple-choice items
• Chapter 18 Reliability scoring consistency for norm-referenced tests
• Chapter 19 Dependability: Scoring or classification consistency for criterion-referenced tests
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index