Designing and analyzing language tests /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carr, Nathan T. (Nathan Thomas), 1966-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Series:Oxford handbooks for language teachers
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Introduction
  • 1. What are we testing and why?
  • 2. Tasks - the building blocks of tests
  • 3. Planning and designing the test
  • 4. Writing the specifications for individual test tasks
  • 5. Writing the test
  • 6. Consistency of measurement
  • 7. Rating scales for extended production tasks
  • 8. Validation
  • 9. Test administration
  • 10. Other important topics in testing
  • Part II. Introduction
  • 11. Organizing data in microsoft excel
  • 12. Descriptive statistics and standard scores
  • 13. Creating graphs or charts in excel
  • 14. Correlation
  • 15. Item analysis for norm-referenced testing
  • 16. Item analysis for criterion-referenced testing
  • 17. Distractor analysis and scoring multiple-choice items in excel
  • 18. Reliability : scoring consistency for norm-referenced tests
  • 19. Dependability : scoring or classification consistency for criterion-referenced tests.