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Modern language testing at the turn of the century: assuring that what we count counts

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EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning Psychometric Methodologies and Testing Multilingual Education and Policy

Abstract

In the past twenty years, language testing research and practice have witnessed the refinement of a rich variety of approaches and tools for research and development, along with a broadening of philosophical perspectives and the kinds of research questions that are being investigated. While this research has deepened our understanding of the factors and processes that affect performance on language tests, as well as of the consequences and ethics of test use, it has also revealed lacunae in our knowledge, and pointed to new areas for research. This article reviews developments in language testing research and practice over the past twenty years, and suggests some future directions in the areas of professionalizing the field and validation research. It is argued that concerns for ethical conduct must be grounded in valid test use, so that professionalization and validation research are inseparable. Thus, the way forward lies in a strong programme of validation that includes considerations of ethical test use, both as a paradigm for research and as a practical procedure for quality control in the design, development and use of language tests.

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