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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Editorial. Glenn Fulcher and Fred Davidson. Section 1: Validity.1.Conceptions of Validity. Carol A. Chapelle. 2. Articulating aValidity Argument. Michael Kane. 3. Validity Issues inDesigning Accommodations for English LanguageL. JamalAbedi. Section 2: Classroom Assessment and Washback. 4.Classroom Assessment. Carolyn Turner.5.Washback. DianneWall. 6: Assessing Young Learners. Angela Hasselgreen.7.Dynamic Assessment. Marta Anton. 8. DiagnosticAssessment in Language Classrooms. Eunice Jang. Section3: The Social Uses of Language Testing. 9. DesigningLanguage Tests for Specific Social Uses. Carol Moder andGene Halleck. 10. Language Assessment for CommunicationDisorders. John Oller. 11.Language Testing for Immigration,Citizenship and Asylum. Antony Kunnan. 12. SocialDimensions of Language Testing. Richard Young. Section 4:Test Specifications. 13. Test Specifications and CriterionReferenced Assessment. Fred Davidson. 14.Evidence-centredDesign in Language Testing. Robert Mislevyand ChengbinYin. 15. Claims, Evidence and Inference in PerformanceAssessment. Steve Ross. Section 5: Writing Items and Tasks.16. Item Writing and Writers. Dong-Il Shin. 17. WritingIntegrated items. Lia Plakans. 18. Test Taking Strategies andTask Design. Andrew Cohen. Section 6: Prototyping and FieldTests. 19. Prototyping New Item Types. Susan Nissan andMary Schedl. 20. Pre-operational Testing. Dorry Kenyon andDavid MacGregor. 21.Piloting Vocabulary Tests. John Read.Section 7: Measurement Theory and Practice. 22. ClassicalTest Theory. J. D. Brown. 23. Item Response Theory. GaryOckey. 24. Reliability and Dependability. Neil Jones. 25. TheGeneralisability of Scores from Language Tests. RobSchoonen. 26. Scoring Performance Tests. Glenn Fulcher.Section 8: Administration and Training. 27. QualityManagement in Test Production and Administration. NickSaville. 28. Interlocutor and Rater Training. Annie Brown. 29.Technology in Language Testing. Yasuyo Sawaki. 30. Validityand the Automated Scoring of Performance Tests. XiaomingXi. Section 9: Ethics and Language Policy. 31. Ethics. AlanDavies. 32.Fairness. Scott Walters. 33. Standards-BasedTesting. Thom Hudson. 34. Language Testing and LanguageManagement. Bernard Spolsky.

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The RoutledgeHandbook of LanguageTestingEdited by Glenn Fulcher, University of Leicester, UK andFred Davidson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,USA

Series: Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing offers a criticaland comprehensive overview of language testing andassessment within the fields of applied linguistics andlanguage study. Specially commissioned chapters byleading academics and researchers address the mostimportant topics facing researchers and practitioners,including: an overview of the key issues in language testing;key research methods and techniques in language testvalidation; the social and ethical aspects of languagetesting; the philosophical and historical underpinnings ofassessment practices; key literature in the field and testdesign and development practices through use of practicalexamples. The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing isthe ideal resource for postgraduate students, languageteachers, and those working in the field of appliedlinguistics.

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