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PHI 208 Week 2 DQ 1 Peter Singer and Animal Rights
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the best testing technique
8 Language testers are sometimes asked to say what is ‘the best test’ or ‘the best testing technique’. Such questions reveal a misunderstanding of…
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Representative tasks
83 We will make the assumption in this chapter that the best way to test people’s writing ability is to get them to write1.…
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Teaching and testing
Many language teachers harbour a deep mistrust of tests and of testers. The starting point for this book is the admission that this mistrust…
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Common test techniques
75 What are test techniques?1 Quite simply test techniques are means of eliciting behaviour from candidates that will tell us about their language abilities.…
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Testing for language teachers
53 Backwash is the effect that tests have on learning and teaching. Since the first edition of this book, there has been evidence of…
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Stages of test development
58 This chapter begins by briefly laying down a set of general procedures for test construction. These are then illustrated by two examples: an…
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Testing overall ability
186 The previous five chapters have given advice on the testing of different abilities. The assumption has been that we need to obtain separate…
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the conditions of administration
36 5 Reliability Imagine that a hundred students take a 100-item test at three o’clock one Thursday afternoon. The test is not impossibly difficult…
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Testing grammar and vocabulary
172 Testing grammar Why test grammar? Can one justify the separate testing of grammar? There was a time when this would have seemed a…