Fairness and Validation in Language Assessment by Antony John Kunnan

Fairness and Validation in Language Assessment by Antony John Kunnan

Fairness of language tests and testing practices has always been a concern among test developers and test users. In the past decade educational and language assessment researchers have begun to focus directly on fairness and related matters such as test standards, test bias and equity and ethics for testing professionals. The 19th annual Language Testing Research Colloquium held in 1997 in Orlando, Florida, brought this overall concern into sharp focus by having 'Fairness in Language Testing' as its theme. The conference presentations and discussions attempted to understand the concept of fairness, define the scope of the concept and connect it with the concept of validation of test score interpretation. The papers in this volume offer a first introduction to fairness and validation in the field of language assessment.

Antony John Kunnan is Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of English at the University of Macau. He is a specialist on language assessment and his research has focused on fairness and justice, statistical analysis, and ethics and public policy. He was the founding editor of Language Assessment Quarterly and is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Asia TEFL.

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ISBN 13	9780521658744
ISBN 10	0521658748
Title	Fairness and Validation in Language Assessment
Author	Antony John Kunnan
Series	Studies In Language Testing
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2000-10-12
Number of pages	320
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