Criterion-Referenced Language Testing

By James Dean Brown and Thom Hudson

Over the past decade criterion-referenced testing (CRT) has become an emerging issue in language assessment. Most language testing books have hitherto focused almost exclusively on norm-referenced testing, whereby test takers' scores are interpreted with reference to the performance of other test takers, and have ignored CRT, an approach that examines the level of knowledge of a specific domain of target behaviours. It is designed to comprehensively address the wide variety of CRT and decision-making needs that more and more language-teaching professionals must address in their daily work. Criterion-referenced Language Testing is the first volume to create a nexus between the theoretical constructs and practical applications of this new area of language testing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521000831
• ISBN13: 9780521000833
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"