Designing and Analyzing Language Tests
Nathan T. Carr · 2011
Preface Introduction Chapter 1 Why and What are we Testing? Chapter 2 Tasks: The Building Blocks of Tests Chapter 3 Planning and Designing the Test: Context and Purpose, and Overall Structure Chapter 4 Writing the Specifications for Individual Test Tasks Chapter 5 Writing the Test: Creating the Tasks you have Planned Chapter 6 Consistency of Measurement: Reliability and Dependability Chapter 7 Rating Scales for Extended Production Tasks Chapter 8 Validation Chapter 9 Test Administration Chapter 10 Other Important Topics Worth Books of their Own Chapter 11 How to organize data in Excel Chapter 12 Visual representations of data Chapter 13 Calculating descriptive statistics in Excel Chapter 14 Correlation Chapter 15 Item analysis for norm-referenced testing Chapter 16 Item analysis for criterion-referenced testing Chapter 17 Basic distractor analysis for multiple-choice items Chapter 18 Reliability scoring consistency for norm-referenced tests Chapter 19 Dependability: Scoring or classification consistency for criterion-referenced tests Glossary Bibliography Index