1: Purpose and Overview; 2: Changing Demographics in a Testing Culture: Why This Issue Matters; 3: The Past as Preparation: Measurement, Public Policy and Implications for Access; 4: Getting Started: Issues of Participation, Alignment, and Validating Access with Test Specifications; 5: Providing the Foundation of Principled Test Construction: Maintaining the Integrity of the Item Targets 1; 6: Access-based Item Development; 7: Tools, Test Forms, and Reviews; 8: In What Language Should English Language Learners be Tested?; 9: Other Relevant Accommodations and Pretest Support; 10: Proper Assignment of Accommodations to Individual Students; 11: Scoring Considerations for English Language Learners; 12: Selected Technical Considerations
Rebecca J. Kopriva is a visiting researcher at the University of Wisconsin, and former testing director and consultant with states and USED. She has published more than 40 journal articles, chapters and books, and has presented widely on her work associated with testing for English language learners. Among her publications is Ensuring Accuracy in Testing for English Language Learners (2000).
"This is an important text for those interested in second and foreign language testing and assessment, even though the title emphasizes "English Language Learners." There is much to garner here to improve language test items for all language learners.…[Kopriva’s] text encourages language professionals to participate in test and assessment development with insights, ideas (both procedural and empirical), and debate for the twenty-first century."-- Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 42.2 (Fall 2009)
|
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
