Fairness of language tests and testing practices has always been a concern among test developers and test users. In the past decade educational and language assessment researchers have begun to focus directly on fairness and related matters such as test standards, test bias and equity and ethics for testing professionals. The 19th annual Language Testing Research Colloquium held in 1997 in Orlando, Florida, brought this overall concern into sharp focus by having “Fairness in Language Testing” as its theme. The conference presentations and discussions attempted to understand the concept of fairness, define the scope of the concept and connect it with the concept of validation of test score interpretation. The papers in this volume offer a first introduction to fairness and validation in the field of language assessment.
This collection of papers from 19th LTRC brought to sharp focus Fairness in Language Testing.
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This collection of papers from 19th LTRC brought to sharp focus Fairness in Language Testing.
Series Editors note vii Preface ix Section One Fairness: Concept and Context xiv Fairness and justice for all 1(14) Antony John Kunnan Fairness in language testing 15(5) Elana Shohamy Writing assessment: Language, meaning and marking memoranda 20(10) Bonny Norton Fairnesses in language testing 30(5) Liz Hamp-Lyons Enhancing fairness through a social contract 35(4) Mary Spaan What, if any, are the limits of our responsibility for fairness in language testing? 39(3) Lyle F. Bachman Section Two Fairness: Standards, Criteria and Bias 42(86) Non-native varieties and issues of fairness in testing English as a world language 43(17) Peter Lowenberg Assessing the communication skills of veterinary students: Whose criteria? 60(22) Dan Douglas Ron Myers Is it fair to assess native and non-native speakers in common on school foreign language examinations? The case of Italian in Australia 82(23) Catherine Elder Identifying suspect item bundles for the detection of differential bundle functioning in an EFL reading comprehension test: A preliminary study 105(23) Yong-Won Lee Section Three Validation: Ratings and Test Development 128(97) Validation of holistic scoring for ESL writing assessment: How raters evaluate compositions 129(24) Alfred Appiah Sakyi Ratings, raters and test performance: An exploratory study 153(24) Beryl Meiron Laurie Schick A job-relevant listening summary translation exam in Minnan 177(24) Charles W. L. Stansfield Weiping M. Wu Marijke van der Heide Schema theory and selected response item tests: From theory to practice 201(24) Ebrahim Khodadady Michael Herriman Section Four Dilemmas and Post modern Test Design 225(48) Reading research and its implications for reading assessment 226(37) William Grabe A post-modern view of the problem of language assessment 263(10) Henry Braum About the authors 273(6) Authors Index 279(15) Subject index 294
