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Validity in Language Assessment

Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1999
All previous papers on language assessment in the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics make explicit reference to validity. These reviews, like other work on language testing, use the term to refer to the quality or acceptability of a test. Beneath the apparent stability and clarity of the term, however, its meaning and scope have shifted over the past
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Assessments of Adolescent Language

Seminars in Speech and Language, 1995
I have stressed that language and learning disabilities that are exhibited in the preschool or elementary school years often persist into adolescence but that the characteristics and implications of these disabilities change with the preadolescent and adolescent transitions to metalinguistic maturity.
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Language assessment literacy for language learning-oriented assessment

Studies in Language Assessment, 2017
This paper reflects on the findings of a small-scale and exploratory study which attempted to explore whether and how learning-oriented assessment opportunities might be revealed in, or inserted into formal speaking tests, order to provide language assessment literacy opportunities for language teachers teaching in test preparation courses as well as ...
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Descriptive and Assessment Languages

1999
How can we economically describe a state in a knowledge structure? The question is inescapable because, as pointed out earlier, realistic states will typically be quite large. In such cases, it is impractical to describe a state by giving the full list of items that it contains.
Jean-Claude Falmagne, Jean-Paul Doignon
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Applying Rasch measurement in language assessment

Quantitative Data Analysis for Language Assessment Volume I, 2019
In applying the Rasch model to language assessment data, it is important to note that unidimensionality and local independence are two crucial measurement requirements that should be addressed.
Jason Fan, T. Bond
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A long walk to language assessment literacy: EFL teachers’ reflection on language assessment research and practice

Reflective Practice, 2019
Language assessment literacy (LAL), an important piece of language teacher education puzzle, has not fully fallen into place as many language teachers remain underprepared for bridging language assessment research-practice gaps in classrooms. Reflection,
E. Babaii, Fatemeh Asadnia
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Assessment of Language

1992
This chapter focuses on the evaluation of developmental language disorders. Those language disorders that result from neurological damage, specifically aphasia and cognitive impairments due to traumatic brain injury, are addressed in Chapter 9.
Kenneth G. Shipley, Julie G. McAfee
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Culture and Language Assessment

2016
This first entry on culture and language assessment is written at a time of much reconsideration of the major constructs in language/s learning and language assessment. This is in response at least partly to the increasingly complex reality of multilinguality and multiculturality in our contemporary world.
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Regarding Language Assessment

Language Assessment Quarterly, 2004
(2004). Regarding Language Assessment. Language Assessment Quarterly: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-4.
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Preoperative assessment: language

2007
Abstract Brain surgery aims at optimal treatment of a lesion with minimal damage to healthy brain tissue, in order to spare the patient from any (new) neurological deficit. This not only requires a priori knowledge about the nature, location, and extent of the lesion and neighbouring anatomical structures (e.g. the vascular architecture)
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