Testing in Language Programs

Testing in Language Programs is a comprehensive text for teachers and students in teacher-training courses in language testing and assessment.

in this book, james dean brown teaches you how to do all types of language testing. you'll learn how to make responsible and profesional proficiency, placement, diagostic, and achievement decisions about your students how to design tests for :

• program level decisions -to compare the performances of students to each other (i.e., norm-referenced tests).

• classroom level decisions- to assess how mush of the material or set of skills taught in a course has been learned by the students (i.e. criterion - referenced tests ).

You'll find that the types of tests needed for each of these categories are quite different, yet brown explains both categories in terms that are involved, brown explains them in a strainghtforward "recipe book" style so you can immediately understand and apply what you learn in your own teaching of administrative situations.

Topics covered in this book include:

• Types & uses of language tests
• Adopting creating & creating language tests
• Developing & improving test items
• Describing test
• Interpreting test scores
• Correlation
• Test reliability
• Test validity & standards testing
• Testing & curriculum