Language Tests and ESL Teaching. Examining Standardized Test Content: Some Advice for Teachers.

DeVincenzi, Felicia

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ERIC Number: EJ501466

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Publication Date: 1995

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Language Tests and ESL Teaching. Examining Standardized Test Content: Some Advice for Teachers.

DeVincenzi, Felicia

TESOL Quarterly, v29 n1 p180-84 Spr 1995

Argues that teachers need to become "informed consumers" of standardized tests in order to influence decisions about test use and about ways to help students perform at their best. Six strategies for considering the content of a test form are presented. (LR)

Descriptors: Content Analysis, English (Second Language), Evaluation, Guidelines, Language Tests, Measurement Objectives, Reliability, Standardized Tests, Test Construction, Test Validity

Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: International English Language Testing System; Test of English as a Foreign Language

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