TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bailey,Kathleen M.
TI  - Learning about Language Assessment: Dilemmas, Decisions, and Directions 
T2  - TeacherSource
SN  - 0838466885
AV  - P53.4 .B35 1998
U1  - 418/.0076 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Pacific Grove, CA
PB  - Heinle & Heinle Publishers
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Ability testing
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Ch. 1; Assessment As Information Gathering --; Ch. 2; Analyzing Tests: The Case of Dictation --; Ch. 3; Conflicting Purposes of Assessment --; Ch. 4; Role of Background Knowledge in the Assessment of Receptive Skills --; Ch. 5; Cloze-Knit Family --; Ch. 6; Another Dilemma: Contrasting Pairs of Concepts --; Ch. 7; Some Useful Statistical Tools --; Ch. 8; Correlation Family --; Ch. 9; Multiple-Choice Tests and Item Analyses --; Ch. 10; Measuring: Meaning: Dictocomps and Strip Stories --; Ch. 11; Eliciting Speech Samples in Role Plays --; Ch. 12; Three Approaches to Scoring Writing Samples --; Ch. 13; "Alternative" Assessments: Performance Tests and Portfolios --; Ch. 14; Self-Assessment in Language Learning
N2  - "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)
ER  -