Carol A. Chapelle Argument-Based Validation in Testing and Assessment

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Carol A. Chapelle shows readers how to design validation research for tests of human capacities and performance. Any test that is used to make decisions about people or programs should have undergone extensive research to demonstrate that the scores are actually appropriate for their intended purpose. Argument-Based Validation in Testing and Assessment is intended to help close the gap between theory and practice, by introducing, explaining, and demonstrating how test developers can formulate the overall design for their validation research from an argument-based perspective.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables

List of Figures

Series Editor’s Introduction

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Chapter 1: What Is Argument-Based Validity?

Introducing Argument-Based Validity

The Academic Tradition of Validity

Evolving Concepts in Testing

Conclusion

Chapter 2: Validity Argument Design

Expressing Interpretations and Uses: Three Example Tests

Using Claims and Inferences to Express Interpretations and Uses

Structuring Claims in a Validity Argument: From Grounds to Conclusions

Identifying Evidence: Warrants, Assumptions, and Backing

Identifying Weaknesses and Limitations in Arguments: Rebuttals

The Language of Validity Argument

Chapter 3: Uses and Consequences of Test Scores

Why Start With Use and Consequences?

Inferences About Use and Consequences

Iowa Assessments: Warrants for Consequence Implication and Utilization

TOEFL i BT: Warrants for Consequence Implication and Utilization

MSCEIT: Warrants for Consequence Implication and Utilization

Potential Rebuttals

Chapter 4: Construct-Related Inferences: Explanation and Extrapolation

Constructs in Validity Arguments

Explanation Inferences for Traits

Extrapolation Inferences for Performance

Combining Explanation and Extrapolation for Interactionalist Constructs

Threats to Construct-Related Inferences

Chapter 5: Consistency-Related Inferences: Generalization and Evaluation

Claims About Score Consistency in Validity Arguments

Generalization Inferences for Test Scores

Evaluation Inferences for Test Tasks

Threats to Reliability

Chapter 6: Content Domain-Related Inference: Domain Definition

Test Development in Validity Arguments

The Domain Definition Inference

Domain Definition for the Example Tests

Chapter 7: Building a Validity Argument

The Logic of Validity Arguments

The Sociocultural Milieu of Validation

Developing a Validity Argument

References

Index

Über den Autor

Carol A. Chapelle is Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University, where she teaches courses in second language acquisition and assessment including a course on argument-based validity. She has over 30 years of experience working on research and development in testing and assessment for English as a second language including supervision of Ph.D. dissertation research, participation in test development projects, and advisory service for commercial, non-profit, and government projects in testing. Throughout her research and practice in language testing, she has explored the evolving methodological guidance for conducting validation research. She was led to the nascent concepts of argument-based validation in the early writing of Michael Kane while working on a project to summarize the validation research for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL i BTTM). The team cultivated Kane’s concepts into a validity argument that succeeded in providing a means for encompassing multiple types of qualitative and quantitative data within a coherent framework showing the connections across test development, test performance and the uses of the scores. The result was a book presenting the validity argument for the TOEFL i BT, Building a Validity Argument for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (Chapelle, Enright, & Jamieson, 2008), which remains a rare example of a validity argument in use for other researchers. She is the recipient of the 2012 Cambridge-International Language Testing Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2012 Educational Testing Service TOEFL Program Messick Memorial Lecture Award, and the 2015 Distinguished Scholarship and Service Award from the American Association for Applied Linguistics. She has served as co-editor of the Language Testing (2016-2018), co-editor of the Cambridge Series in Applied Linguistics (2007-present), and founding editor of the Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012-present).

Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● Seiten 160 ● ISBN 9781544334462 ● Dateigröße 16.4 MB ● Verlag SAGE Publications ● Ort Thousand Oaks ● Land US ● Erscheinungsjahr 2020 ● Ausgabe 1 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 7363977 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM

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