Validation in Language Testing: (2 Modern Language in Practice)

Table of Contents:
Alister Cumming: Introduction: The Concept of Validation in Language Testing SECTION I. EVIDENTIAL BASES OF TEST INTERPRETATION l.i. Validation of New Instruments and Procedures: Feasibility, Reliability, and Model-Fitting 1. Michael Milanovic, Nick Saville, Alastair Pollitt and Annette Cook: Developing Rating Scales for CASE: Theoretical Concerns and Analyses 2. Belle Tyndall and Dorry Mann Kenyon: Validation of a New Holistic Rating Scale Using Rasch Multi-faceted Analysis I.ii. Criterion Evidence in Test Interpretation: Hypothesis Testing for Construct Validation 3. Sara Cushing Weigle and Brian Lynch: Hypothesis Testing in Construct Validation 4. Alister Cumming and Dean Mellow: An Investigation into the Validity of Written Indicators of Second Language Proficiency I.iii. Concurrent Validation: Comparing Alternative Test Methods 5. Ari Huhta and Elina Randell: Multiple-choice Summary: A Measure of Text Comprehension 6. Michel Laurie: Using the Information Curve to Assess Language CAT Efficiency SECTION II. EVIDENTIAL BASES OF LANGUAGE TEST USE II.i. Criterion Evidence in Test Use: Expert Judgments 7. Charles W. Stansfield and Dorry Mann Kenyon: Comparing the Scaling of Speaking Tasks by Language Teachers and by the ACTFL Guidelines II.ii. Tracing Learners' Cognitive Processes and Domain-Specific Knowledge in Test Use 8. Ingrid F. Wijgh: A Communicative Test in Analysis: Strategies in Reading Authentic Texts 9. Caroline Clapham: What Makes an ESP Reading Test Appropriate for its Candidates? SECTION III. CONSEQUENTIAL BASES OF LANGUAGE TESTING: IMPACTS ON EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL SYSTEMS 10. Dianne Wall and J. Charles Alderson: Examining Washback: The Sri Lankan Impact Study 11. Alan Davies: The Role of the Segmental Dictionary in Professional Validation: Constructing a Dictionary of Language Testing 12. Kathleen M. Bailey and James Dean Brown: Language Testing Courses: What Are They?

About the Author :
Alister Cumming is Head of the Modern Language Centre and Associate Professor of Curriculum at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education where he teaches graduate courses and conducts research on curriculum, instruction, learning, and evaluation in second-language education. Richard Berwick is Assistant Professor in the Department of Language Education at the University of British Columbia, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses and conducts research on second-language testing, learning, teaching and curriculum.