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Direct linkKnoch, Ute; Deygers, Bart; Khamboonruang, Apichat – Language Testing, 2021
Rating scale development in the field of language assessment is often considered in dichotomous ways: It is assumed to be guided either by expert intuition or by drawing on performance data. Even though quite a few authors have argued that rating scale development is rarely so easily classifiable, this dyadic view has dominated language testing…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Test Construction, Language Tests, Test Use
Peer reviewedBachman, Lyle F. – Language Testing, 2000
Reviews developments in language testing research and practice over the last 20 years, and suggests future directions in the areas of professionalizing the field and validation research. Argues that concerns for ethical conduct must be grounded in valid test use, so that professionalization and validation research are inseparable. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Ethics, Language Research, Language Tests, Second Language Instruction
