语言测试与效度验证--基于证据的研究方法

    本书作者Weir教授是世界著名的语言测试专家，撰写了很多在语言测试方面影响较大的著作。本书是第一部全面、系统地阐述语言测试效度的专著。书中吸收了效度研究的最新成果，提出了基于证据的效度验证的理论框架，并列举了大量研究实例，堪称语言测试效度理论与实践的里程碑之作。

General Editors'' Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I  Testing as Validity
  1 Language Testing Past and Present
    1.1 The Cambridge Proficiency Examination 191''3-1945:''The Garden of Eden'', ''the pre-scientific era''
    1.2 Developments in the 1960s:''themove towards a language-based examination
    1.3 The 1975 and 1984 revisions: ''The Promised Land''?
  2 The Nature of Test Validity
  3 Before the Test Event: A Priori Validity Evidence
    3.1 Theory-based validity
    3.2 Context validity
  4 After the Test Event: A Posteriori Validity Evidence
    4.1 Scoring validity
    4.2 Criterion-related validity
    4.3 Consequential validity
Part 2  New Frameworks for Developing and Validating Tests of Reading, Listening, Speaking and Writing Introduction
  5 Test Takers
    5.1 Physical/physiological characteristics: making accommodations
    5.2 Psychological characteristics: affective schemata
    5.3 Experiential characteristics: familiarity
  6 Context Validity in Action
    6.1 Task setting
    6.2 Task demands
    6.3 Setting and test administration
  7 Theory-based Validity in Action
      7.1  Reading
      7.2 Listening
      7.3 Speaking
      7.4 Writing
  8 Response Formats
      8.1 Techniques for testing reading comprehension
      8.2 Techniques for testing listening comprehension
      8.3 Techniques for testing speaking
      8.4 Techniques for testing written production
  9 Scoring Validity in Action
      9.1 Scoring written production
      9.2 Scoring speaking tests
      9.3 Internal reliability of receptive tests
      9.4 Scores, grading, and post-exam validation procedures
  10 External Validities in Action
     10.1 Criterion-related validity
     10.2 Consequential validity
Part 3  Generating Validity Evidence Introduction
  11 Research Methodologies for Exploring the Validity of a Test
     11.1 An introductory note on research
     11.2 A priori validation: investigating the specification of,the, construct and the operationalization of t.he test
     11.3 Establishing context validity
     11.4 Establishing theory-based validity evidence
     11.5 Establishing scoring validity evidence
     11.6 Establishing evidence on a posteriori validities
Part 4  Further Resources in Language Testing
  12 Key Sources
     12.1 Books
     12.2 Journals
     12.3 Professional associations
     12.4 Principal testing conferences
     12.5 Email lists and bulletin boards
     12.6 lnternet sites
     12.7 Databases
     12.8 Statistical packages
Postscript
References
Index