SHIKEN - JALT Testing & Evaluation SIG Newsletter

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A cloze look at placement testing
An overview of the ACTFL proficiency interview . . .
An overview of Australian univ. entry requirements
Application of the fusion model to while-listening performance tests
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
Assessment Literacy Self-Study Quiz #3
Assessment Literacy Self-Study Quiz #4
Assessment Literacy Self-Study Quiz #5
Assessment Literacy Self-Study Quiz #6
Assessment Literacy Self-Study Quiz #7
Assessment Literacy Self-Study Quiz #8
Assessment Literacy Self-Study Quiz #9
Assessment Literacy Self-Study Quiz #10
Assessment Literacy Self-Study Quiz #11
Book Review: 3 Introductory testing texts
Book Review: Applying the Rasch model . . .
Book Review: Art of non-conversation, The . . .
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: College Admissions for the 21st Century
Book Review: Criterion-referenced language testing
Book Review: IELTS washback in context
Book Review: Issues in testing business English
Book Review: Investigating Pragmatics in Foreign Language Learning, Teaching & Testing
Book Review: Language testing
Book Review: Language testing & assessment
Book Review: Language testing reconsidered
Book Review: Language testing: The social dimension
Book Review: Language testing & validation
Book Review: Measuring and evaluating school learning [3rd Edition]
Book Review: Measuring second language performance
Book Review: Modern Psychometrics: The Science of Psychological Assessment [3rd Edition]
Book Review: Psychological statistics using SPSS for Windows
Book Review: R through Excel
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
Cognitive diagnostic assessment as an alternative measurement model
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
Critical review of five language washback studies from 1995-2007, A
Developing classroom specific rating scales . . .
Do different C-tests discriminate proficiency levels . . .
Equating classroom pre and post tests under item response theory
Estimating vocabulary size
Ethical Standards for Language Testing Professionals. . .
Evaluating the construct validity of an EFL test for PhD candidates . . .
Fundamentals of ongoing assessment
Historical and social foundations of standardized testing . . . ,The
Insights in Language Testing: An Interview with Andrew Cohen
Insights in Language Testing: An Interview with Barry O'Sullivan
Insights in Language Testing: An Interview with Carsten Roever
Insights in Language Testing: An Interview with Dan Douglas
Insights in Language Testing: An Interview with David Beglar
Insights in Language Testing: An Interview with Gholam Reza Haji Pour Nezhad
Insights in Language Testing: An Interview with Glenn Fulcher
Insights in Language Testing: An Interview with George Engelhard, Jr.
Insights in Language Testing: An Interview with J.D. Brown
Insights in Language Testing: An Interview with Jessica Wu
Insights in Language Testing: An Interview with Kazuhiko Saito
Insights in Language Testing: An Interview with Kenji Ohtomo
Insights in Language Testing: An Interview with Liz Hamp-Lyons
Insights in Language Testing: An Interview with Leo Yoffe
Insights in Language Testing: An Interview with Lyle Bachman
Insights in Language Testing: An Interview with Michihiro Hirai
Insights in Language Testing: An Interview with Randy Thrasher
Insights in Language Testing: An Interview with Robert Gardner
Insights in Language Testing: An Interview with Shozo Kuwata [(E)] [(J)]
Insights in Language Testing: An Interview with Spiros Papageorgiou
Insights in Language Testing: An Interview with Todd Fouts
Insights in Language Testing: An Interview with Trevor Bond
Insights in Language Testing: An Interview with Yoshinori Watanabe
Innovative School-Based Oral Testing in Asia
Introduction to the TOEIC LPI test, An
MEXT's 2003 Action Plan: Does it encourage performance assessment?
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 to the Japanese government
Opinion Piece: Face validity - Is there a place for this in measurement?
Opinion Piece: 'New' TOEIC, The
Opinion Piece: TOEIC - Tried but undertested
Opinion Piece: Why isn't note taking allowed on the TOEIC?
Practicalities of ongoing assessment
Rasch Measurement in Language Education: Part 1
Rasch Measurement in Language Education: Part 2 - Measurement Scales and Invariance
Rasch Measurement in Language Education: Part 3 - The family of Rasch Models
Rasch Measurement in Language Education: Part 4 - Rasch Analysis Software Programs
Rasch Measurement in Language Education: Part 5 - Assumptions and requirements of Rasch measurement
Rasch Measurement in Language Education: Part 6 - Rasch Measurement and Factor Analysis
Revision of the IELTS speaking test
Satire: Guidelines for ethical conduct in the care and use of students
Satire: The Templin 1/2k
Some challenges in academic research
Some preliminary thoughts on statistics and background information on SPSS
Some new proposals and responses . . . [regarding] Japanese university entrance exams
Statistics Corner #1: Skewness & kurtosis
Statistics Corner #2: Reliability of surveys
Statistics Corner #3: Cloze tests and Optimal Test Length
Statistics Corner #4: Standard error vs. Standard error of measurement
Statistics Corner #5: How can we calculate item statistics. . .?
Statistics Corner #6: What issues affect Likert-scale questionnaire formats?
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
Statistics Corner #25: Sample size and precision
Statistics Corner #27: The Bonferroni adjustment
Statistics Corner #28: Effect size and eta squared
Statistics Corner #29: Principal components analysis and exploratory factor analysis
Statistics Corner #30: Choosing the Right Number of Components or Factors in PCA and EFA
Statistics Corner #31: Choosing the Right Type of Rotation in PCA and EFA
Statistics Corner #32: How are PCA and EFA used in language research?
Statistics Corner #33: How are PCA and EFA used in language test and questionnaire development?
Statistics Corner #34: Likert items and scales of measurement?
Statistics Corner #35: Confidence intervals, limits, and levels?
Student and teacher perceptions of learning needs . . .
Student evaluation of teachers: Professional practice or punitive policy?
Testing the test: Using Rasch person scores
Testing young learners with CYLE: The new kids on the block
Theoretical frameworks of testing in SLA: Processing perspectives and strategies . . .
TOEIC in Japan: A scandal made in heaven, The
Towards a more global ESOL assessment scheme
University entrance exams: Strategies for . . .
University entrance exams: Strategies for . . .
2010 revision of the TOEIC® Speaking Test, The

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