Studies in Language Testing 9: Fairness and Validation in Language Assessment: Selected Papers from the 19th Language Testing Research Colloquium, Orlando, Florida (Studies in Language Testing)

Antony John Kunnan, .

ISBN 10: 0521658748 / ISBN 13: 9780521658744

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2000

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• Title: Studies in Language Testing 9: Fairness and Validation in Language Assessment: Selected Papers from the 19th Language Testing Research Colloquium, Orlando, Florida (Studies in Language Testing)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521658748
• ISBN 13: 9780521658744
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
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Synopsis

Fairness of language tests and testing practices has always been a concern among test developers and test users. In the past decade educational and language assessment researchers have begun to focus directly on fairness and related matters such as test standards, test bias and equity and ethics for testing professionals. The 19th annual Language Testing Research Colloquium held in 1997 in Orlando, Florida, brought this overall concern into sharp focus by having 'Fairness in Language Testing' as its theme. The conference presentations and discussions attempted to understand the concept of fairness, define the scope of the concept and connect it with the concept of validation of test score interpretation. The papers in this volume offer a first introduction to fairness and validation in the field of language assessment.

Book Description

This collection of papers from 19th LTRC brought to sharp focus Fairness in Language Testing.