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Randez, Robert A.; Cornell, Caitlin – Language Testing, 2023
Promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has become a unifying cause within applied linguistics. Whether highlighting the experiences of linguistically diverse learners across the social class spectrum or advocating for the inclusion of marginalized populations in research, researchers within the subfields of applied linguistics have…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Language Tests, Students with Disabilities, Inclusion
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Kane, Michael – Language Testing, 2012
The argument-based approach to validation involves two steps; specification of the proposed interpretations and uses of the test scores as an interpretive argument, and the evaluation of the plausibility of the proposed interpretive argument. More ambitious interpretations and uses tend to involve an extended network of inferences and assumptions…
Descriptors: Testing, Language Tests, Inferences, Test Validity
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Wilson, Mark; Moore, Stephen – Language Testing, 2011
This paper provides a summary of a novel and integrated way to think about the item response models (most often used in measurement applications in social science areas such as psychology, education, and especially testing of various kinds) from the viewpoint of the statistical theory of generalized linear and nonlinear mixed models. In addition,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Testing, Social Sciences, Item Response Theory
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Hamp-Lyons, Liz – Language Testing, 1997
Links the theory of washback with the broader concept of impact in educational measurement and to the recent debate on construct validity associated with Messick. Notes that for many years it was asserted that language tests negatively impacted teaching and learning, an impact known as washback. (25 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Ethics, Higher Education, Language Tests, Measurement Techniques
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Wall, Dianne – Language Testing, 1996
Suggests that any model of washback must include insights from the theory of educational innovation to help explain why tests do not always have the desired or feared effect. Key concepts in educational innovation are reviewed, showing how these concepts are manifested in a case study in washback and outlining how they are being applied in recent…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Cognitive Development, Educational Innovation