TY  - BOOK
AU  - McNamara,T.F.
TI  - Measuring second language performance
T2  - Applied linguistics and language study
SN  - 0582089077 (pbk.)
U1  - 418.0076 22
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Harlow, England
PB  - Pearson Education Limited
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Ability testing
KW  - BUEsh
KW  - Examinations
KW  - HHUUEENN
KW  - August2018
KW  - Reading book
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Performance assessment is increasingly important in education and training, with its focus on the ever growing requirement to demonstrate ability in practical communication skills. Yet many fundamental problems in performance based assessment still remain. This book provides a critical examination of the practice and theory behind performance based assessment in the context of second language learning. It also offers the first comprehensive presentation of a new measurement approach - Rasch Measurement, which enables investigation of aspects of performance setting (rater and task characteristics for example) to determine their effect on the scores awarded to candidates and to manage this variability fairly.
ER  -