Product Description: Over the past decade criterion-referenced testing (CRT) has become an emerging issue in language assessment. Most language testing books have hitherto focused almost exclusively on norm-referenced testing, whereby test takers' scores are interpreted with reference to the performance of other test takers, and have ignored CRT, an approach that examines the level of knowledge of a specific domain of target behaviours...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Research studies introduce a variety of novel, nontraditional forms of second and foreign language assessment. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume focuses on the decision-making potential provided by second language performance assessments. The authors first situate performance assessment within a broader discussion of alternatives in language assessment and in educational assessment in general...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)