What is it about?
The nine chapters in this edited volume report on complicated, often behind-the-scenes research efforts to enhance the interpretation of English language test scores developed by ETS, by employing diverse methodologies such as vertical linking, score mapping, standard setting, scale anchoring, and score concordance.
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Why is it important?
In a post-pandemic era full of challenges and change in the field of language assessment, this volume highlights the ethical responsibility of test providers to engage in sometimes challenging research and development efforts to better serve score users.
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The book demonstrates the (often behind-the-scenes) efforts of ETS language researchers, psychometricians, and assessment designers to answer a surprisingly challenging question: What do language test scores mean? We are grateful to the colleagues whose valuable work supports score interpretation for ETS's language tests, and Beverly Baker, who wrote the concluding chapter, thus setting our future agenda in this area. Series editors John Norris and Sara Cushing were very supportive throughout the writing project and provided valuable feedback. At a personal level, I could not have asked for a better co-editor than Venessa Manna. Thanks to all these people, co-authoring several of the chapters and editing the whole volume was a truly rewarding experience, and the culmination of over a decade of language assessment research at ETS!
Spiros Papageorgiou
Educational Testing Service
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This page is a summary of: Meaningful Language Test Scores, June 2023, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/illa.1.
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