ABSTRACT

Winner of the SAGE/ILTA Book Award 2016

The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing will provide a comprehensive account of the area of language assessment and testing. Written by leading specialists from around the world, this volume brings together approximately 35 authoritative articles (around 8000 words each). The proposed outline for the Handbook (below) is divided into ten sections. The section titles reflect the contents of their Language Testing and Assessment –textbook in our RAL series and sketch a useful overview of the discipline. Each chapter has been carefully selected to relate to key issues raised in the respective topic, providing additional historical background, critical discussion, reviews of key research methods, and an assessment of what the future might hold.

 

chapter |18 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

PART I Validity

part |2 pages

PART II Classroom assessment and washback

chapter 4|14 pages

Classroom assessment

chapter 5|14 pages

Washback

chapter 6|13 pages

Assessing young learners

chapter 7|14 pages

Dynamic assessment

part |2 pages

PART III The social uses of language testing

part |2 pages

PART V Writing items and tasks

chapter 16|12 pages

Item writing and writers

chapter 17|13 pages

Writing integrated items

part |2 pages

PART VI Prototyping and field tests

chapter 19|14 pages

Prototyping new item types

chapter 20|12 pages

Pre-operational testing

chapter 21|14 pages

Piloting vocabulary tests

part |2 pages

PART VII Measurement theory and practice

chapter 22|13 pages

Classical test theory

chapter 23|14 pages

Item response theory

chapter 24|13 pages

Reliability and dependability

chapter 26|15 pages

Scoring performance tests

part |2 pages

PART VIII Administration and training

part |2 pages

PART IX Ethics and language policy

chapter 32|10 pages

Fairness

chapter 33|16 pages

Standards-based testing