Festschrift in Honour of Guenther Sigott : Advanced Methods in Language Testing

Dobric, Nikola (EDT); Cesnik, Hermann (EDT); Harsch, Claudia (EDT)

ISBN 10: 3631871430 / ISBN 13: 9783631871430

Published by Peter Lang, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Festschrift in Honour of Guenther Sigott : Advanced Methods in Language Testing
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631871430
• ISBN 13: 9783631871430
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The contributors to this volume take up a variety of subjects such as washback of standardized tests, the acknowledgement of language varieties in high-stakes exams, fostering language assessment literacy or psychometric models to enhance C-test interpretations or scoring validity.

About the Author

Nikola Dobric is a Senior Scientist at the Department of English, University of Klagenfurt, Austria. His main research interests are assessment of writing, rater cognition, language assessment in general, and corpus linguistics.

Hermann Cesnik is a statistician from the Language Testing Center and the Central Computing Services (ZID) at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. His main research interests are theory of measurement and psychometrics in the broad area of language assessment.

Claudia Harsch is Professor of Research into Language Learning and Teaching at the University of Bremen, Germany. Her main research interests are language assessment, teacher education, and the implementation of the Common European Framework of Reference.