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      Towards Identifying the C-Test Construct

      Gunther Sigott

      What do C-Tests really measure? This book describes the history and the theoretical background of C-Tests and gives a survey of research into C-Test validity, which leads to the central…

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      Measuring Interlanguage Pragmatic Knowledge of EFL Learners

      Jianda Liu,Rudiger Grotjahn,Gunther Sigott

      Revision of author’s thesis (doctoral)–University of Hong Kong, 2004.

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      Strategic Competence and EFL Reading Test Performance: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach

      Aek Phakiti,Gunther Sigott,Rudiger Grotjan

      Strategic competence (a higher-order executive ability that executes strategies for language use) has long been theorized as a significant non-linguistic factor affecting second language (L2) communicative ability. Despite its recognition…

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      Applying Item Response Theory in Language Test Item Bank Building

      Gabor Szabo,Rudiger Grotjan,Gunther Sigott

      Item Response Theory, though it has become a widely recognized tool in language testing research, is still not used frequently in practical language assessment projects. This book intends to provide…

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      Personality Differences and Oral Test Performance

      Vivian Berry,Rudiger Grotjahn,Gunther Sigott

      The book examines how individual differences in candidates’ levels of extraversion interact with facets which have been shown to affect scores obtained on oral performance tests. Three major studies are…

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      Measuring Interlanguage Pragmatic Knowledge of Efl Learners

      Jianda Liu,Rudiger Grotjahn,Gunther Sigott

      Revision of author’s thesis (doctoral)–University of Hong Kong, 2004.

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      Testing ESL Pragmatics: Development and Validation of a Web-Based Assessment Battery

      Carsten Rover,Rudiger Grotjahn,Gunther Sigott

      Although second language learners’ pragmatic competence (their ability to use language in context) is an essential part of their general communicative competence, it has not been a part of second…

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      Language Testing in Austria: Taking Stock / Sprachtesten in Oesterreich: Eine Bestandsaufnahme

      This book describes language test development and language testing research in Austria. It documents large-scale test development for German as a first language, the foreign languages English, French, Italian and…

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      Interviewer Variability in Oral Proficiency Interviews

      Annie Brown (University of Melbourne)

      This book was the winner of the 2005 Jacqueline A. Ross Dissertation Award for second or foreign language testing. The assessment of speaking skills is an important part of the…

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      Introduction to Many-Facet Rasch Measurement

      Thomas Eckes

      Human ratings are subject to various forms of error and bias. Since the early days of performance assessment, this problem has been sizeable and persistent. For example, expert raters evaluating…

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      Evaluating Tests of Second Language Development: A Framework and an Empirical Study

      Khaled Barkaoui

      The book introduces a framework for examining the validity of tests that aim to assess second-language proficiency development over time and/or in relation to second-language instruction. The book reports the…

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      Validating Analytic Rating Scales: A Multi-Method Approach to Scaling Descriptors for Assessing Academic Speaking

      Armin Berger

      This book presents a unique scale development project, with a focus on the validation of two rating scales for assessing academic speaking. It reports on a multi-method study designed to…

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      Introduction to Many-Facet Rasch Measurement: Analyzing and Evaluating Rater-Mediated Assessments. 2nd Revised and Updated Edition

      Thomas Eckes

      This revised and updated Second Edition provides an introduction to the psychometric analysis and evaluation of rater-mediated assessments using many-facet Rasch measurement (MFRM). Essay rating data are used to illustrate…

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      Predicting Item Difficulty in a Reading Test: A Construct Identification Study of the Austrian 2009 Baseline English Reading Test

      Klaus Siller

      This study investigates how cognitive and contextual characteristics of multiple-choice reading tasks impact empirical difficulty in a reading test. Results provide evidence of construct validity and are also relevant for…

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      Testing Lexicogrammar: An Investigation into the Construct Tested in the Language in Use Section of the Austrian Matura in English

      Theresa Weiler

      This book explores the construct of language in use, specifically as operationalised through different item types in the Austrian Matura. The findings suggest that the tasks under investigation assess grammatical…

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      Festschrift in Honour of Guenther Sigott: Advanced Methods in Language Testing

      The contributors to this volume take up a variety of subjects such as washback of standardized tests, the acknowledgement of language varieties in high-stakes exams, fostering language assessment literacy or…

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