Fairness and Validation in Language Assessment Kunnan EFL Paperback

Fairness and Validation in Language AssessmentSelected Papers from the 19th Language Testing Research Colloquium, Orlando, Florida\nAuthor(s): Antony John Kunnan\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521658744, 978-0521658744\nSynopsis\nFairness of language tests and testing practices has always been a concern among test developers and test users. In the past decade educational and language assessment researchers have begun to focus directly on fairness and related matters such as test standards, test bias and equity and ethics for testing professionals. The 19th annual Language Testing Research Colloquium held in 1997 in Orlando, Florida, brought this overall concern into sharp focus by having 'Fairness in Language Testing' as its theme. The conference presentations and discussions attempted to understand the concept of fairness, define the scope of the concept and connect it with the concept of .