作者简介 西里尔·J. 韦尔(Cyril J. Weir):世界知名语言测试专家,曾任教于英国贝德福特大学,并担任英语学习与评估研究中心主任。他还曾在兰卡斯特大学、雷丁大学等大学任教。在上海交通大学任客座教授期间,指导过我国大学英语四、六级考试(CET)和英语专业四、八级考试(TEM)的设计开发和研究工作。
目录 General Editors Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Part I Testing as Validity 1 Language Testing Past and Present 1.1 The Cambridge Proficiency Examination 1913-1945: The Garden of Eden, the pre-scientific era 1.2 Developments in the 1960s: the move towards a language-based examination 1.3 The 1975 and 1984 revisions: The Promised Land? 2 The Nature of Test Validity 3 Before the Test Event: A Priori Validity Evidence 3.1 Theory-based validity 3.2 Context validity 4 After the Test Event: A Posteriori Validity Evidence 4.1 Scoring validity 4.2 Criterion-related validity 4.3 Consequential validity Part 2 New Frameworks for Developing and Validating Tests of Reading, Listening, Speaking and Writing Introduction 5 Test Takers 5.1 Physical/physiological characteristics: making accommodations 5.2 Psychological characteristics: affective schemata 5.3 Experiential characteristics: familiarity 6 Context Validity in Action 6.1 Task setting 6.2 Task demands 6.3 Setting and test administration 7 Theory-based Validity in Action 7.1 Reading 7.2 Listening 7.3 Speaking 7.4 Writing 8 Response Formats 8.1 Techniques for testing reading comprehension 8.2 Techniques for testing listening comprehension 8.3 Techniques for testing speaking 8.4 Techniques for testing written production 9 Scoring Validity in Action 9.1 Scoring written production 9.2 Scoring speaking tests 9.3 Internal reliability of receptive tests 9.4 Scores, grading and post-exam validation procedures 10 External Validities in Action 10.1 Criterion-related validity 10.2 Consequential validity Part 3 Generating Validity Evidence Introduction 11 Research Methodologies for Exploring the Validity of a Test 11.1 An introductory note on research 11.2 A priori validation: investigating the specification of the construct and the operationalization of the test 11.3 Establishing context validity 11.4 Establishing theory-based validity evidence 11.5 Establishing scoring validity evidence 11.6 Establishing evidence on a posteriori validities Part 4 Further Resources in Language Testing 12 Key Sources 12.1 Books 12.2 Journals 12.3 Professional associations 12.4 Principal testing conferences 12.5 Email lists and bulletin boards 12.6 Internet sites 12.7 Databases 12.8 Statistical packages Postscript References Index
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