Useful Assessment and Evaluation in Language Education

Raises the need for further research in many areas related to language assessment and evaluation, and draws attention to the many challenges that remain for language teachers tasked with implementing assessments within the Assessment for Learning framework. Overall, this collection of well-written studies is laudable in the contribution it makes to this field of research. * Teachers College Record * The perspectives offered in this volume present innovative research on foreign language learning from outside the academic contexts of theological education and religious studies. * The Wabash Center Journal On Teaching *

John McE. Davis is John McE. Davis is Research Scientist at the Center for English Language Learning and Assessment at the Educational Testing Service, USA. His research interests include language program evaluation, language assessment, and questionnaire research methods. John M. Norris is Senior Research Director of the Center for English Language Learning and Assessment at the Educational Testing Service, USA. His primary research interests include educational uses of language assessment, program evaluation, task-based language teaching, and research synthesis. Margaret E. Malone is Director of the Assessment and Evaluation Language Resource Center (AELRC) and Research Professor at Georgetown University and Director of the Center for Assessment, Research and Development at ACTFL. Her current research focuses on language assessment literacy, oral proficiency assessment and the relative difficulty of learning different languages. Todd H. McKay is a Ph.D. candidate in applied linguistics and research assistant with the AELRC at Georgetown University. His research interests include language assessment, language program evaluation, and applied measurement, with emphases on the less commonly taught languages and language programs in South Asia. Young-A Son is a PhD candidate in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University. Her research interests include the assessment of foreign and heritage language learners. More specifically, her work examines validation of language tests and other indicators of language proficiency for research as well as instructional purposes.

Preface John McE. Davis Part 1. Connecting Assessment, Learners, and Learning 1. Developing Students' Self-Assessment Skills: The Role of the Teacher Richard Kiely 2. Young Learners' Processes and Rationales for Responding to Self-Assessment Items: Cases of Generic Can-Do and Five-Point, Likert-Type FormatsYuko Goto Butler 3. The Impact of Self-Assessment on Learning and Teaching in Technology-Mediated Language Education: User Perceptions of the Teletandem Tracking Sheet Viviane Bagio Furtoso and Michael J. Ferreira 4. An Integrated Approach to Foreign Language Instruction and Assessment Keiko Koda and Junko Yamashita 5. Using Assessment to Promote Learning: Clarifying Constructs, Theories, and PracticesConstant Leung, Chris Davison, Martin East, Michael Evans, Yongcan Liu, Liz Hamp-Lyons, and James E. Purpura Part 2. Innovating, Framing, and Exploring Assessment in Language Education 6. Linguistic Correlates of Proficiency (LCP): At the Intersection of Testing and Teaching Svetlana V. Cook, Shauna J. Sweet, Alia Lancaster, Nicholas B. Pandza, Scott R. Jackson, Eric Pelzl, Kira Gor, and Catherine J. Doughty 7. Face-to-Face Speaking Assessment in the Digital Age: Interactive Speaking Tasks Online Larry Davis, Veronika Timpe-Laughlin, Lin Gu, and Gary Ockey 8. Task-Based Language Assessment for L1 and L2 Speakers in Primary Education: Designing a Useful Task-Specification FrameworkKoen Van Gorp 9. Predicting Placement Accuracy and Language Outcomes in Immigrants' L2 Finnish Education Taina Tammelin-Laine, Ari Huhta, Reeta Neittaanmaki, Tuija Hirvela, Sari Ohranen, and Elina Stordell Part 3. Validity Evaluation 10. University Entrance Language Tests: Examining Assumed Equivalence Bart Deygers 11. Addressing Consequences and Validity during Test Design and Development: Implementing the CAL Validation Framework Justin Kelly, Jennifer Renn, and Jennifer Norton 12 Using a Validation Framework as a Guide for Planning Analyses and Collecting Information in Preoperational and Operational Testing Chih-Kai Lin and David MacGregor 13. Addressing Diversity in CALL Evaluation through Arguments and Theory-of-Action Jim Ranalli 14. Validating Assessments for Meaning and Usefulness Michael T. Kane List of Editors and Contributors Index