SHIKEN - JALT Testing & Evaluation SIG Newsletter

Topic Index

Academic Research (Templin)
ACTFL Proficiency Interviews (Yoffe)
Active vs. Passive Language Skills (Hirai)
Applying the Rasch Model (Book Review)
Assessing Listening (Book Review)
Assessment Literacy Quiz (Dec. 2006)
Assessment Literacy Quiz (Mar. 2007)
Australian Univ. EFL Entry (Gruba-Hill)
Bachman, Lyle (Interview)
Bond, Trevor (Interview)
Brown, J.D. (Interview)
Cambridge Young Learners of English (CYLE) tests (MacGregor)
Classroom-Based Evaluation (Book Review)
Classroom Rating Scales (Venema)
Cloze Placement Test Development (Poel-Weatherly)
Cloze Tests & Statistics (Brown)
Coefficient of Determination (Brown)
Comprehensive Assessment (Ikeguchi)
Complexity Judgments (Haji Pour Nezhad)
Cohen, Andrew (Interview)
Construct Validity (Brown)
Construct Validity Evaluation (Jia & Zhang)
C-tests & Cloze Tests (Ikeguchi)
Criterion-referenced language testing (Book Review)
Cronbach alpha reliability estimates (Brown)
Difference Index and B-Index (Brown)
Distracter efficiency analysis (Brown)
Douglas, Dan (Interview)
Eigenvalues and factor analysis (Brown)
Entrance exam plagiarism (Murphey)
Ethical Conduct in Testing (Jaquith)
Extraneous variables & the washback effect (Brown)
Face Validity (Opinion Piece Against)
Face Validity (Opinion Piece in Favor)
Gardner, Robert C. (Interview)
Generalizibility & Decision Studies (Brown)
Generalizing Research Sample Results (Brown)
Haji Pour Nezhad, Gholam Reza (Interview)
Hamp-Lyons, Liz (Interview)
High School Entrance Exams (Akiyama)
Hirai, Michihiro (Interview)
Humor: The Templin 1/2k (Templin)
IELTS Speaking Test Revision (Boddy)
Individual Assessment (Murphey)
Internal Consistency & Reliability (Brown)
Issues in Testing Business English (Book Review)
Item Facility & Item Discrimination (Brown)
Item Statistics for Weighed Items (Brown)
Japan Language Testing Association 2006 Annual Conference (Hubbell)

Language for Specific Purposes (Book Review)
Language Testing (Book Review)
Language Testing & Evaluation (Book Review)
Language Testing Theory & SLA Research (Brown)
Language Testing & Validation (Book Review)
Language Testing Resources (Brown)
Likert-scale Questionnaires (Brown)
Measuring & Evaluating School Learning (Book Review)
Measuring Second Language Performance (Book Review)
Needs Analysis (Kikuchi)
Needs Analysis Construct Validation (Kumazawa)
Ohtomo, Kenji (Interview)
Ongoing Assessment - Fundamentals (Croker)
Ongoing Assessment - Implementation (Carbery)
O'Sullivan, Barry (Interview)
Point-Biserial Correlation Coefficients (Brown)
Qualitative research (Brown)
Reasoning with statistics (Book Review)
Saitoh, Kazuhiko (Interview)
Sample Size & Power (Brown)
Skewness & Kurtosis (Brown)
Spearman-Brown prophecy formula (Brown)
SPSS (Book Review)
SPSS & Statistics (Background Info)
Standard Errors (Brown)
Standardized Testing (Edwards)
Standardized Minds (Book Review)
Statistical Analyses for Language Assessment (Book Review)
Statistics (Book Review)
Statistics (Book Review)
STEP-Eiken Test (Fouts)
Teacher Evaluations by Students (Simmons)
Testing and Grading (Book Review)
Test-taker motivations (Brown)
Testing Teacher Training (Gorsuch)
Testing Trap: How State Writing Assessments Control Learning, The (Book Review)
Thrasher, Randy (Interview)
TOEFL 2000 Revision (McNamara)
TOEIC LPI Test (MacGregor)
TOEIC Research (Chapman)
Truth about Testing: An Educator's Call to Action, The (Book Review)
Two-Stage Testing (Brown)
Translation of Test Items (Griffee)
University Entrance Exams & Washback (Brown)
University Entrance Exams: 3 Proposals (Murphey)
Vocabulary Size Estimates (Beglar)
Washback in Language Testing (Book Review)
Watanabe, Yoshinori (Interview)
Yates Correction Factor (Brown)
Yoffe, Leo (Interview)

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