The Companion to Language Assessment, 4 Volume Set

by Kunnan, Antony John

• ISBN13: 9780470655337
• ISBN10: 047065533X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-12-04
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

• A state-of-the-art reference work exploring the crucial topics for practitioners and scholars of language teaching and assessment, their impact on language learners, and specific approaches to assessment employed around the world
• Includes 140 thematically-organized chapters exploring the contexts where assessment occurs, including learners and their abilities; developmental tools and approaches to assessment; and qualitative and quantitative interdisciplinary approaches to evaluation and language assessment in 35 languages
• Brings together an international team of scholars under the editorship of Antony John Kunnan, one of the foremost scholars in this field
• Combines the leading voices and cutting-edge research in a reference work spanning the fields of language teaching and learning, language policy and planning, testing and evaluation, and education

4 Volumes

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Author Biography

Antony John Kunnan is Professor at California State University, Los Angeles and Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the author of Validation in Language Assessment (1998), Fairness and Validation in Language Assessment (2000), and Statistical Analysis for Language Assessment Workbook and CD-ROM (with L. F. Bachman, 2005). He is also the founding editor of Language Assessment Quarterly, past President of the International Language Testing Association, former member of the TOEFL Committee of Examiners, and current member of the US Fulbright national review panel for TEFL/Applied Linguistics.

Table of Contents

Volume 1: Contexts, learners, abilities [31 chapters]

Part 1: Overview (2)

1. Editorial: Language Assessment

2. Modern Language Assessment: The first 50 years

Part 2: Assessment contexts (8)

3. Classroom assessment

4. School leaving or exit examinations

5. University admissions examinations - Janna Fox

6. Workplace assessment - TBN

7. Government and military assessment – Rachel Brooks

8. Immigration assessment - Nick Saville

9. Citizenship assessment - Tim McNamara

10. Asylum-related language analysis - Diane Eades

Part 3: Assessing learner groups (7)

11. Young language learners - Alison Bailey

12. Adult language learners - Geoff Brindley

13. Heritage language learners - TBN

14. Indigenous language learners – Dean Mellow

15. Language teachers - TBN

16. Individuals with speech and language impairment – TBN

17. Aptitude for second or additional language learners - Dan Reed

Part 4: Abilities (14)

18. Literacy - TBN

19. Listening – TBN

20. Speaking – Martin Bygate

21. Reading - William Grabe

22. Writing – Sara Weigle

23. Pronunciation – Alistair van Moere

24. Vocabulary - John Read

25. Grammar - James Purpura

26. Pragmatics - Carsten Roever

27. Literature – TBN

28. Translation and interpretation - TBN

29. Integrated skills - TBN

30. Language and content - TBN

Volume 2: Approaches, development, analysis [34 chapters]

Part 5: Approaches and feedback (7)

32. Norm-referenced approach – Yasuyo Sawaki

33. Criterion-referenced approach - Thom Hudson

34. Standard setting – Neil Jones

35. Self assessment – Mats Oscarson

36. Peer assessment - TBN

37. Dynamic assessment - TBN

38. Cognitive diagnosis - Yong-Won Lee

Part 6: Development (10) (some shorter chapters)

39. Defining constructs and assessment design – Joan Jamieson

40. Writing specifications - Fred Davidson

41. Writing items and tasks - Susan Nissan

42. Selecting or writing texts for listening and reading tasks – Mary Schedl

43. Writing scoring criteria and score reports – Margaret Malone

44. Field testing of test tasks - TBN

45. Content coverage analyses for test revisions - Barbara Dobson

46. Fairness analyses for test revisions – TBN

47. Statistical analyses for test revisions - Eunice Jang

48. Using standards and guidelines - TBN

Part 7: The use of technology (5)

49. Computer-adaptive assessment – John de Jong

50. Using corpora to design assessment – Doug Biber

51. Use of new technologies in designing test tasks - TBN

52. Computer scoring of written responses – Nathan Carr

53. Speech processing of spoken responses – Jared Bernstein

Part 8: Analysis (12) (some shorter chapters)

54. Content representativeness analysis – Lorena Llosa

55. Construct validation and reliability analyses – Xiaoming Xi

56. Developing questionnaires – Aek Phakiti

57. Developing structured interviews – TBN

58. Using think-aloud protocol – TBN

59. Classical and item response theory – J. D. Brown

60. Generalizability theory – Rob Schoonen

61. Differential item and testlet functioning analysis – Andre Rupp

62. Factor analysis and structural modeling analysis - Gary Ockey

63. Rating analysis and rater training – Dorry Kenyon

64. Spoken discourse/conversational analysis – Anne Lazaraton

65. Written discourse analysis – TBN

Volume 3: Assessment around the world (34 chapters)

Part 9: Overview (3)

66. First language assessment - TBN

67. Second language assessment – TBN

Part 10: Current practices in first language assessment (25) (shorter chapters)

Africa

68. Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Swahili - TBN

69. Shona, Ndebele, Xhosa – TBN

North and South America

70. American Sign Language - TBN

71. Navajo - TBN

72. Hawai’ian – TBN

Middle-East and South Asia

73. Arabic - Atta Gebril

74. Hebrew - Ofra Inbar

75. Farsi - Hossein Farhady

76. Hindi/Urdu - Rajni Badlani

77. Bengali - TBN

78. Malayalam - Suchitra Sadanandan

79. Tamil - Vyjayanthi Sankar

South East and East Asia

80. Mandarin Chinese - Qi Luxia

81. Cantonese - TBN

82. Taiwanese - TBN

83. Thai - Viphavee Vongpumivitch

84. Vietnamese - TBN

85. Japanese - Miyoko Kobayashi

86. Korean - Young-Ju Lee

Europe

87. German - Heinrich Ruebling

88. Dutch - Piet van Avermaet

89. French - Samira El Atia

90. Spanish - TBN

91. Armenian - TBN

92. Greek - TBN

Part 11: Current practices in second language assessment (7) (shorter chapters)

93. Africa - TBN

94. Australia and New Zealand - TBN

95. East Asia - TBN

96. Europe - TBN

97. India – TBN

98. The U.K. - TBN

99. The U.S. - TBN

Volume 4: Building evaluation frameworks [26 chapters]

Part 12: Influences from other disciplines (11)

100. Historical perspectives – Bernard Spolsky

101. Philosophical influences – Glenn Fulcher

102. Public policy and assessment – Kate Menken

103. Language education and assessment - TBN

104. Influences from educational and psychological measurement – TBN

105. Language acquisition and assessment – TBN

106. Influences from non-language assessments - TBN

107. Ethics and assessment - TBN

108. Forensics and assessment - Margaret van Naerssen

109. Neurosciences and assessment – Alan Beretta

110. Legal issues and assessment – Susan Phillips

Part 13: Conceptualizing assessment evaluation (7)

111. Designing research studies – Carolyn Turner

112. Construct validation – TBN

113. Political mandates - Elana Shohamy

114. Fairness considerations – Antony John Kunnan

115. Accommodations considerations – Jamal Abedi

116. Consequences – Liying Cheng

117. Using argument structure – TBN

Part 14: Research and training (6)

118. Software for research – TBN

119. Plagiarism, cheating and security – TBN

120. International language assessments - TBN

121. Sponsored research projects – Charles Stansfield

122. Writing research reports - TBN

123. Training programs for language assessment professionals - TBN

Part 15: Looking forward (2)

124. New technologies and assessment - Carol Chapelle

125. Assessment policy and social equity - TBN

Outline for main chapters

1. Introduction

2. Advances

3. Challenges

4. Future directions

5. References

6. On-line materials (audio, video materials, performance data, data analysis, samples, etc.)

Outline for short chapters (Assessment development and assessment in specific languages)

1. Introduction

2. Teaching

3. Assessment

4. Future directions

5. References

6. On-line materials (audio, video materials, performance data, data analysis, samples, etc.)

31. Language varieties - Liz Hamp-Lyons