本书的写作目的是帮助关注教育测试与评价理论的教师了解这一领域的基本理念，并帮助他们分析课堂教学评价的案例。

本书共分14章，每章包含三部分：教师之声、理论框架和研究与反思。“教师之声”以讲故事的形式把教师在实践中遇到的困惑告诉给读者，作者记录下与教师的对话，以这种方法引发读者思考。在“理论框架”部分中，每一章围绕一个主题介绍不同的评价手法及相关领域的研究，从理论上指导读者解决问题。在“研究与反思”部分，作者为读者设定了不同的任务及参考案例，力图使读者将相关知识应用到实践中去，结合自己的课堂教学与学习，尝试一些新想法。这部分不仅包括了教师可试用的任务，还提供了相关书目，感兴趣者可以进一步研究。

本书与实际紧密结合，语言简朴，非常适合中小学教师和一切关注语言教学发展和教学测评的人士使用，也可用作教师培训的教材。

“圣智英语教师丛书”精选自圣智学习出版公司出版的当代语言教育领域的力作，由当今国际语言教育界的权威人士编著，国内英语教育界专家、学者撰写导读。丛书选题涵盖外语教学理论、语言教学技能和实践、学法指导、课程设计、语言测试与评估、外语教学科研方法、师资发展、语境和文化教学以及教学法等诸多领域，能够满足目前英语教师适应新课改的迫切需要。本丛书既可用作英语教师专业化教育与发展和英语专业硕士研究生教育的教材，同时也是语言教育研究者必备的参考书。

导读

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PREFACE

AUTHOR'S PREFACE

INTRODUCTION TWENTY QUESTIONS

CHAPTER 1 ASSESSMENT AS INFORMATION GATHERING

CHAPTER 2 ANALYZlNG TESTS: THE CASE OF DICTATION

  Standard Dictations and Wesche's Framework

  Partial Dictations

  Graduated Dictations

CHAPTER 3 CONFLICTING PURPOSES OF ASSESSMENT

  Norm-referenced and Criterion-referenced Testing

  Purposes of Language Assessment

CHAPTER 4 THE ROLE OF BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE IN THE ASSESSMENT

  OF RECEPTIVE SKILLS

CHAPTER 5 A CLOZE-KNIT FAMILY

  "Fill-in" Items

  Cloze Tests

  C-tests

CHAPTER 6 ANOTHER DILEMMA: CONTRASTING PAIRS OF CONCEPTS

  Direct and Indirect Tests

  Discrete-point and Integrative Testing

  Objective and Subjective Scoring

CHAPTER 7 SOME USEFUL STATISTICAL TOOLS

  Measures of Central Tendency

  Measures of Dispersion

  Frequency Polygons

  Degrees of Freedom

  Calculating Standard Deviation

  Standardized Scores

CHAPTER 8 THE CORRELATION FAMILY

  Types of Data

  Basic Correlation Concepts

  Pearson "s Correlation Coefficient

  Overlapping Variance

  Spearman "s Rank-order Correlation

  Point-biserial Correlation Coefficient

CHAPTER 9 MULTIPLE-CHOICE TESTS AND ITEM ANALYSES

  Multiple-choice Tests

  Item Facility

  Distractor Analysis

  Item Discrimination

  Response Frequency Distribution On the Item Editing Task

CHAPERT 10 MEASURING MEANING: DICTOCOMPS AND STRIP STORIES

CHAPTER 11 ELICTTING SPEECH SAMPLES IN ROLE PLAYS

  Plausibility and Experience

  Unequal Power Discourse

  Some Issues in Scoring Speech Samples

  Computing Rater Reliability

CHAPTER 12 THREE APPROACHES TO SCORING WRITING SAMPLES

  Holistic Scoring

  Analytic Scoring

  Objective Scoring

CHAPTER 13 "ALTERNATIVE" ASSESSMENTS: PERFORMANCE TESTS AND PORTFOLIOS

  Performance Tests

  Portfolio Assessment

CHAPTER 14 SELF-ASSESSMENT IN LANGUAGE LEARNING

GLOSSARY

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