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Bailey, Kathleen M.

Learning about Language Assessment : Dilemmas, Decisions, and Directions / Kathleen M. Bailey. - Pacific Grove, CA : Heinle & Heinle Publishers, 1998. - xiii, 258 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Newbury House teacher development . - TeacherSource . - TeacherSource. Newbury House teacher development. .

Includes bibliographical references.

Assessment As Information Gathering -- Analyzing Tests: The Case of Dictation -- Conflicting Purposes of Assessment -- Role of Background Knowledge in the Assessment of Receptive Skills -- Cloze-Knit Family -- Another Dilemma: Contrasting Pairs of Concepts -- Some Useful Statistical Tools -- Correlation Family -- Multiple-Choice Tests and Item Analyses -- Measuring: Meaning: Dictocomps and Strip Stories -- Eliciting Speech Samples in Role Plays -- Three Approaches to Scoring Writing Samples -- "Alternative" Assessments: Performance Tests and Portfolios -- Self-Assessment in Language Learning. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8. Ch. 9. Ch. 10. Ch. 11. Ch. 12. Ch. 13. Ch. 14.

"Learning About Language Assessment: Dilemmas, Decisions, and Directions provides a practical analysis of language assessment theory and accessible explanations of the statistics involved." (Book Cover)

0838466885

97030858


Language and languages--Ability testing.

P53.4 / .B35 1998

418/.0076

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