語言評價研究

內容介紹

《語言評價研究:困境、抉擇與方向》主要內容簡介：當前，我國外語教育領域正在進行著全面而深入的改革。改革的內容涉及到外語教育的方針政策、基本理念、基本原則、教育文化、教育實施、教育評價等各個方面，也關係到新世紀億萬學生的成長和可持續發展。隨著課改新理念、語言新方針和教育新策略的確定及課改的逐步推開，教師培訓工作的重要性和關鍵作用變得越來越為突出。從某種意義上說，課改能否最終獲得成功，取決於廣大教師對課改的認識、取決於他們的語言理論水平和實際工作能力。

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導讀ACKNOWLEDGMENTSPREFACEAUTHOR'S PREFACEINTRODUCTION TWENTY QUESTIONSCHAPTER 1 ASSESSMENT AS INFORMATION GATHERINGCHAPTER 2 ANALYZlNG TESTS: THE CASE OF DICTATION Standard Dictations and Wesche's Framework Partial Dictations Graduated DictationsCHAPTER 3 CONFLICTING PURPOSES OF ASSESSMENT Norm-referenced and Criterion-referenced Testing Purposes of Language AssessmentCHAPTER 4 THE ROLE OF BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE IN THE ASSESSMENT OF RECEPTIVE SKILLSCHAPTER 5 A CLOZE-KNIT FAMILY "Fill-in" Items Cloze Tests C-testsCHAPTER 6 ANOTHER DILEMMA: CONTRASTING PAIRS OF CONCEPTS Direct and Indirect Tests Discrete-point and Integrative Testing Objective and Subjective ScoringCHAPTER 7 SOME USEFUL STATISTICAL TOOLS Measures of Central Tendency Measures of Dispersion Frequency Polygons Degrees of Freedom Calculating Standard Deviation Standardized ScoresCHAPTER 8 THE CORRELATION FAMILY Types of Data Basic Correlation Concepts Pearson "s Correlation Coefficient Overlapping Variance Spearman "s Rank-order Correlation Point-biserial Correlation CoefficientCHAPTER 9 MULTIPLE-CHOICE TESTS AND ITEM ANALYSES Multiple-choice Tests Item Facility Distractor Analysis Item Discrimination Response Frequency Distribution On the Item Editing TaskCHAPERT 10 MEASURING MEANING: DICTOCOMPS AND STRIP STORIESCHAPTER 11 ELICTTING SPEECH SAMPLES IN ROLE PLAYS Plausibility and Experience Unequal Power Discourse Some Issues in Scoring Speech Samples Computing Rater ReliabilityCHAPTER 12 THREE APPROACHES TO SCORING WRITING SAMPLES Holistic Scoring Analytic Scoring Objective ScoringCHAPTER 13 "ALTERNATIVE" ASSESSMENTS: PERFORMANCE TESTS AND PORTFOLIOS Performance Tests Portfolio AssessmentCHAPTER 14 SELF-ASSESSMENT IN LANGUAGE LEARNINGGLOSSARYREFERENCES