Useful Assessment and Evaluation in Language Education

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