Publisher Description

The sixth volume in the Global Research on Teaching and Learning English series offers up-to-date research on the rapidly changing field of language assessment. The book features original research with chapters reporting on a variety of international education settings from a range of diverse perspectives. Covering a broad range of key topics—including scoring processes, test development, and student and teacher perspectives—contributors offer a comprehensive overview of the landscape of language assessment and discuss the consequences and impact for learners, teachers, learning programs, and society. Focusing on the assessment of language proficiency, this volume provides an original compendium of cutting-edge research that will benefit TESOL and TEFL students, language assessment scholars, and language teachers.

Author Biography

Spiros Papageorgiou is Managing Senior Research Scientist at Educational Testing Service.Kathleen M. Bailey is Professor at Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, USA.

Table of Contents

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart 1: Raters and Rating1. Analytic Rubric Format: How Category Position Affects Raters' Mental RubricLaura Ballard2. Rater Training in a Speaking Assessment: Impact on More- and Less-Proficient RatersLarry Davis3. The Impact of Rater Experience and Essay Quality on the Variability of EFL Writing ScoresÖzgür ahan4. Assessing Second Language Writing: Raters' Perspectives from a Sociocultural ViewYi MeiPart 2: Test Development and Validation5. Assessing Clinical Communication on the Occupational English Test Brigita Séguis & Sarah McElwee6. Updating the Domain Analysis of the Writing Subtest of a Large-scale Standardized Test for K-12 English Language LearnersJing Wei, Tanya Bitterman, Ruslana Westerlund & Jennifer Norton7. The Effect of Audiovisual Input on Academic Listen-Speak Task PerformanceChing-Ni Hsieh & Larry Davis8. The Reliability of Readability Tools in L2 ReadingAlisha Biler9. Eye Tracking Evidence on the Role of Second Language Proficiency in Integrated Writing Task PerformanceMikako Nishikawa10. The Effects of Writing Task Manipulations on ESL Students' Performance: Genre and Idea Support as Task VariablesHyung-Jo Yoon11. Cyberpragmatics: Assessing Interlanguage Pragmatics through Interactive Email CommunicationIftikhar HaiderPart 3: Test-taker and Teacher Perspectives12. Did Test Preparation Practices for the College English Test (CET) Work? A Study from Chinese Students' PerspectivesJia Ma13. Intended Goals and Reality in Practice: Test Takers' Perspectives on the College English Test in ChinaYing Bai14. How Teacher Conceptions of Assessment Mediate Assessment Literacy: A Case Study of a University English Teacher in ChinaYueting Xu15. Sociocultural Implications of Assessment Practices in Iranian, French, and American Foreign Language ClassesSoodeh EghtesadIndex

Review

"This leading-edge volume captures an extremely broad cross-section of research contexts and assessment-related issues. By doing so, the book helps the reader—and the field—move beyond the findings and points of view that focus so heavily on the same learners and settings."--Luke Plonsky, Northern Arizona University, USA"Global Perspectives on Language Assessment provides much-needed support for teachers' professional development. This book is written by some of the brightest scholars in our field and is based on cutting-edge research studies. This volume not only helps teachers develop their testing and assessment practices, but also includes an important narrative element, which will enhance teachers' assessment literacy, leading ultimately to enhanced student learning." --Liying Cheng, Queen's University, Canada

Review Quote

"This leading-edge volume captures an extremely broad cross-section of research contexts and assessment-related issues. By doing so, the book helps the reader--and the field--move beyond the findings and points of view that focus so heavily on the same learners and settings." --Luke Plonsky, Northern Arizona University, USA " Global Perspectives on Language Assessment provides much-needed support for teachers' professional development. This book is written by some of the brightest scholars in our field and is based on cutting-edge research studies. This volume not only helps teachers develop their testing and assessment practices, but also includes an important narrative element, which will enhance teachers' assessment literacy, leading ultimately to enhanced student learning." --Liying Cheng, Queen's University, Canada

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