Evaluating Language Assessments

Evaluating Language Assessments offers a comprehensive overview of the theoretical bases and research methodologies for the evaluation of language assessments and demonstrates the importance of a fuller understanding of this widely-used evaluative tool. The volume explores language assessment evaluation in its wider political, economic, social, legal, and ethical contexts while also illustrating quantitative and qualitative methods through discussions of key research studies. Suitable for students in applied linguistics, second language acquisition, and language assessment and education, this book makes the case for a clear and rigorous understanding of the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of language assessment evaluation in order to achieve fair assessments and just institutions.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Language assessments: The need for evaluation
Chapter 2 Past frameworks and evaluations
Chapter 3 Ethics-based approach to assessment evaluation
Chapter 4 Building the Fairness and Justice Argument
Chapter 5 Opportunity-to-Learn
Chapter 6 Meaningfulness
Chapter 7 Absence of Bias
Chapter 8 Washback and Consequences
Chapter 9 Advancing fairness and justice
Chapter 10 Applications and implications

About the author

Antony John Kunnan is Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of English at the University of Macau. He is a specialist on language assessment and his research has focused on fairness and justice, statistical analysis, and ethics and public policy. He was the founding editor of Language Assessment Quarterly and is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Asia TEFL.

Product details

• Authors: Antony John Kunnan, Kunnan Antony John
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.07.2017
• EAN: 9780415897761
• ISBN: 978-0-415-89776-1
• No. of pages: 294
• Series: New Perspectives on Language Assessment Series; New Perspectives on Language Assessment
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Linguistics, English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Language teaching theory and methods, Language teaching and learning, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), Applied linguistics for ELT