SHIKEN - JALT Testing & Evaluation SIG Newsletter

Title Index

A cloze look at placement testing
An overview of ACTFL proficiency interviews . . .
An overview of Australian univ. entry requirements
Assessing speaking in Japanese junior high schools . . .
Assessing the individual: Theatre of the absurd
Assessment Literacy Self-Study Quiz #1
Assessment Literacy Self-Study Quiz #2
Book Review: 3 Introductory testing texts
Book Review: Applying the Rasch Model . . .
Book Review: Assessing Language for Specific Purposes
Book Review: Assessing Listening
Book Review: Cartoon Guide to Statistics, The
Book Review: Classroom-Based Evaluation . . .
Book Review: Criterion-referenced language testing
Book Review: Issues in Testing Business English
Book Review: Language Testing
Book Review: Language Testing & Validation
Book Review: Measuring and Evaluating School Learning [3rd Edition]
Book Review: Measuring Second Language Performance
Book Review: Psychological Statistics Using SPSS for Windows
Book Review: Reasoning with statistics: How to read quantitative research [5th Edition]
Book Review: Standardized Minds & The Truth about Testing
Book Review: Statistical Analyses for Language Assessment
Book Review: Statistics for the Utterly Confused
Book Review: Testing Trap: How State Writing Assessments Control Learning, The
Book Review: Washback in Language Testing
Challenge of speaking: research on the testing of speaking for the new TOEFL, The
Conference Report: Tenth Annual Japan Language Testing Association Conference
Construct validation of a general English language needs analysis instrument
Correlations between Active Skill and Passive Skill Test Scores
Developing classroom specific rating scales . . .
Do different C-tests discriminate proficiency levels . . .
Estimating vocabulary size
Evaluating the construct validity of an EFL test for PhD candidates . . .
Fundamentals of ongoing assessment
Guidelines for ethical conduct . . .
Historical and social foundations of standardized testing . . . ,The
Introduction to the TOEIC LPI test, An
On becoming a testing teacher: Preliminary notes
Opinion Piece: Can we validly translate questionnaire items . . .
Opinion Piece: Challenging the notion of face validity
Opinion Piece: Entrance exams breaking copyright law? Academically unethical?
Opinion Piece: Excerpts from an open letter . . .
Opinion Piece: Face validity - Is there a place for this. . . ?
Opinion Piece:TOEIC - Tried but undertested
Practicalities of ongoing assessment
Research Parody: The Templin 1/2k
Revision of the IELTS speaking test
Some challenges in academic research
Some preliminary thoughts on statistics and background information on SPSS
Statistics Corner #1: Skewness & kurtosis
Statistics Corner #2: Reliability of surveys
Statistics Corner #3: Cloze tests
Statistics Corner #4: Standard errors . . .
Statistics Corner #5: How can we calculate item statistics. . .?
Statistics Corner #6: What issues affect Likert-scale. . . ?
Statistics Corner #7: What is construct validity?
Statistics Corner #8: Can we use the Spearman-Brown . . .?
Statistics Corner #9: What is an eigenvalue?
Statistics Corner #10: What is two-stage testing?
Statistics Corner #11: What is a point-biserial correlation coefficient?
Statistics Corner #12: The Cronbach alpha reliability estimate
Statistics Corner #13: Extraneous variables and the washback effect
Statistics Corner #14: Distracter efficiency analysis
Statistics Corner #15: The coefficient of determination
Statistics Corner #16: Norm-referenced item analysis
Statistics Corner #17: Criterion-referenced item analysis
Statistics Corner #18: Yates correction factor
Statistics Corner #19: Test-taker motivations
Statistics Corner #20: Generalizability and decision studies
Statistics Corner #21: Characteristics of sound qualitative research
Statistics Corner #22: Resources available in language testing
Statistics Corner #23: Generalizability from second language research samples
Statistics Corner #24: Sample size and power
Student and teacher perceptions of learning needs . . .
Student evaluation of teachers. . . ?
Testing young learners with CYLE: The new kids on the block
Theoretical frameworks of testing in SLA: Processing perspectives and strategies . . .
Towards a more global ESOL assessment scheme
University entrance exams: Strategies for . . .
Voices in the Field: An Interview with Andrew Cohen
Voices in the Field: An Interview with Barry O'Sullivan
Voices in the Field: An Interview with Dan Douglas
Voices in the Field: An Interview with Gholam Reza Haji Pour Nezhad
Voices in the Field: An Interview with J.D. Brown
Voices in the Field: An Interview with Kazuhiko Saito
Voices in the Field: An Interview with Kenji Ohtomo
Voices in the Field: An Interview with Liz Hamp-Lyons
Voices in the Field: An Interview with Leo Yoffe
Voices in the Field: An Interview with Lyle Bachman
Voices in the Field: An Interview with Michihiro Hirai
Voices in the Field: An Interview with Randy Thrasher
Voices in the Field: An Interview with Robert Gardner
Voices in the Field: An Interview with Todd Fouts
Voices in the Field: An Interview with Trevor Bond
Voices in the Field: An Interview with Yoshinori Watanabe

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