Measuring Second Language Performance (Applied Linguistics and Language Study)

✍ Scribed by T. F. McNamara

Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Leaves: 168
Edition: 1st
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Performance assessment is increasingly important in education and training, with its focus on the ever growing requirement to demonstrate ability in practical communication skills. Yet many fundamental problems in performance based assessment still remain. This book provides a critical examination of the practice and theory behind performance based assessment in the context of second language learning. It also offers the first comprehensive presentation of a new measurement approach - Rasch Measurement, which enables investigation of aspects of performance setting (rater and task characteristics for example) to determine their effect on the scores awarded to candidates and to manage this variability fairly.

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