導(dǎo)讀 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PREFACE AUTHOR'S PREFACE INTRODUCTION TWENTY QUESTIONS CHAPTER 1 ASSESSMENT AS INFORMATION GATHERING CHAPTER 2 ANALYZlNG TESTS: THE CASE OF DICTATION Standard Dictations and Wesche's Framework Partial Dictations Graduated Dictations CHAPTER 3 CONFLICTING PURPOSES OF ASSESSMENT Norm-referenced and Criterion-referenced Testing Purposes of Language Assessment CHAPTER 4 THE ROLE OF BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE IN THE ASSESSMENT OF RECEPTIVE SKILLS CHAPTER 5 A CLOZE-KNIT FAMILY "Fill-in" Items Cloze Tests C-tests CHAPTER 6 ANOTHER DILEMMA: CONTRASTING PAIRS OF CONCEPTS Direct and Indirect Tests Discrete-point and Integrative Testing Objective and Subjective Scoring CHAPTER 7 SOME USEFUL STATISTICAL TOOLS Measures of Central Tendency Measures of Dispersion Frequency Polygons Degrees of Freedom Calculating Standard Deviation Standardized Scores CHAPTER 8 THE CORRELATION FAMILY Types of Data Basic Correlation Concepts Pearson "s Correlation Coefficient Overlapping Variance Spearman "s Rank-order Correlation Point-biserial Correlation Coefficient CHAPTER 9 MULTIPLE-CHOICE TESTS AND ITEM ANALYSES Multiple-choice Tests Item Facility Distractor Analysis Item Discrimination Response Frequency Distribution On the Item Editing Task CHAPERT 10 MEASURING MEANING: DICTOCOMPS AND STRIP STORIES CHAPTER 11 ELICTTING SPEECH SAMPLES IN ROLE PLAYS Plausibility and Experience Unequal Power Discourse Some Issues in Scoring Speech Samples Computing Rater Reliability CHAPTER 12 THREE APPROACHES TO SCORING WRITING SAMPLES Holistic Scoring Analytic Scoring Objective Scoring CHAPTER 13 "ALTERNATIVE" ASSESSMENTS: PERFORMANCE TESTS AND PORTFOLIOS Performance Tests Portfolio Assessment CHAPTER 14 SELF-ASSESSMENT IN LANGUAGE LEARNING GLOSSARY REFERENCES