Research and Practice in Assessing Academic Reading: The Case of IELTS

Research and Practice in Assessing Academic Reading: The Case of IELTS

Weir, Cyril J.
Chan, Sathena
Taylor, Lynda
Saville, Nick

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This volume describes differing approaches to understanding academic reading ability that have emerged in recent decades and goes on to develop an empirically-grounded framework for validating tests of this skill. The framework is then applied to the IELTS Academic Reading module to investigate a number of different validity perspectives that reflect the socio-cognitive nature of any assessment event. The authors demonstrate how a systematic understanding and application of the framework and its components can help test developers to operationalise their tests so as to fulfill the validity requirements for an academic reading test.

  • ISBN: 978-1-108-73361-8
  • Editorial: Cambridge University Press
  • Encuadernacion: Rústica
  • Páginas: 42
  • Fecha Publicación: 29/08/2019
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés