Research and Practice in Assessing Academic Reading: The Case of IELTS: 51 (Studies in Language Testing, Series Number 51)

Weir, Cyril J.,Chan, Sathena

ISBN 10: 1108733611 / ISBN 13: 9781108733618

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Research and Practice in Assessing Academic Reading: The Case of IELTS: 51 (Studies in Language Testing, Series Number 51)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108733611
• ISBN 13: 9781108733618
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This volume describes differing approaches to understanding academic reading ability that have emerged in recent decades and goes on to develop an empirically-grounded framework for validating tests of this skill. The framework is then applied to the IELTS Academic Reading module to investigate a number of different validity perspectives that reflect the socio-cognitive nature of any assessment event. The authors demonstrate how a systematic understanding and application of the framework and its components can help test developers to operationalise their tests so as to fulfill the validity requirements for an academic reading test.