The Routledge handbook of language testing / edited by Glenn Fulcher and Fred Davidson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Validity -- 1.Conceptions of validity / Carol A. Chapelle -- 2.Articulating a validity argument / Michael Kane -- 3.Validity issues in designing accommodations for English language learners / Jamal Abedi -- pt. II Classroom assessment and washback -- 4.Classroom assessment / Carolyn E. Turner -- 5.Washback / Dianne Wall -- 6.Assessing young learners / Angela Hasselgreen -- 7.Dynamic assessment / Marta Anton -- 8.Diagnostic assessment in language classrooms / Eunice Eunhee Jang -- pt. III The social uses of language testing -- 9.Designing language tests for specific social uses / Gene B. Halleck -- 10.Language assessment for communication disorders / John W. Oller, Jr. -- 11.Language assessment for immigration and citizenship / Antony John Kunnan -- 12.Social dimensions of language testing / Richard F. Young -- pt. IV Test specifications -- 13.Test specifications and criterion referenced assessment / Fred Davidson --

Contents note continued: 14.Evidence-centered design in language testing / Chengbin Yin -- 15.Claims, evidence, and inference in performance assessment / Steven J. Ross -- pt. V Writing items and tasks -- 16.Item writing and writers / Dong-il Shin -- 17.Writing integrated items / Lia Plakans -- 18.Test-taking strategies and task design / Andrew D. Cohen -- pt. VI Prototyping and field tests -- 19.Prototyping new item types / Mary Schedl -- 20.Pre-operational testing / David MacGregor -- 21.Piloting vocabulary tests / John Read -- pt. VII Measurement theory and practice -- 22.Classical test theory / James Dean Brown -- 23.Item response theory / Gary J. Ockey -- 24.Reliability and dependability / Neil Jones -- 25.The generalisability of scores from language tests / Rob Schoonen -- 26.Scoring performance tests / Glenn Fulcher -- pt. VIII Administration and training -- 27.Quality management in test production and administration / Nick Saville --

Contents note continued: 28.Interlocutor and rater training / Annie Brown -- 29.Technology in language testing / Yasuyo Sawaki -- 30.Validity and the automated scoring of performance tests / Xiaoming Xi -- pt. IX Ethics and language policy -- 31.Ethical codes and unexpected consequences / Alan Davies -- 32.Fairness / F. Scott Walters -- 33.Standards-based testing / Thom Hudson -- 34.Language testing and language management / Bernard Spolsky.