Acknowledgments
PART ONE Conceptual bases of test development
1 Objectives and expectations
2 Test usefulness: Qualities of language tests
3 Describing tasks: Language use in language tests
4 Describing language ability: Language use in language tests
PART TWO Language test development
5 Overview of test development
6 Describing, identifying, and defining
7 Developing a plan for the evaluation of usefulness
8 Identifying, allocating, and managing resources
9 Operationalization: Developing test tasks and blueprints
10 Preparing effective instructions
11 Scoring method
12 Language test administration
PART THREE Illustrative test development projects
Project 1 High-stakes selection and placement test for students entering a university writing program
Project 2 Selection/placement test for telephone company employees
Project 3 Syllabus-based diagnostic achievement test for students in an ESP program
Project 4 Exit test for students in an adult education conversation course for immigrants
Project 5 High-stakes ESP screening test for making hiring and training decisions
Project 6 Placement test for an ESL reading course
Project 7 Employment/placement/achievement test for immigrants in a government-funded vocational training ESL course
Project 8 Classroom achievement test for an introductory German course
Project 9 Classroom achievement test for the reading component of the Korean-English two-way bilingual immersion program
Project 10 Syllabus-based EFL progress test for primary school children
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