31.3056, Books: Validity: Chalhoub-Deville, O'Sullivan

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Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2020 21:23:13
From: Janet Joyce [jjoyce at equinoxpub.com]
Subject: Validity: Chalhoub-Deville, O'Sullivan

 


Title: Validity 
Subtitle: Theoretical Development and Integrated Arguments 
Series Title: British Council Monographs on Modern Language Testing  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
	   http://www.equinoxpub.com/
	

Book URL: https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/validity/ 


Author: Micheline Chalhoub-Deville
Author: Barry O'Sullivan

Electronic: ISBN:  9781781799918 Pages: 216 Price: U.S. $ 32
Hardback: ISBN:  9781781799895 Pages: 216 Price: U.S. $ 100
Paperback: ISBN:  9781781799901 Pages: 216 Price: U.S. $ 32


Abstract:

"Validity: Theoretical Development and Integrated Arguments" provides a
historical overview of validity, targeting developments in both the UK and the
US. It explores theoretical notions of validity as well as pragmatic
validation practices and expands the arguments that need to be attended to
document quality.

The authors examine the need to consider, in addition to the psychometric
evidence, which has continued to prevail especially in the US, other critical
sources of quality evidence. They call attention to principled design and the
evidence accumulated from various departments/groups involved in test design
and development. They also promote the concept of impact by design, which
places consequences at the top of the evidence chain to guide all testing
efforts and quality documentation. They envision validity scholarship to
attend to consequences at the individual, aggregate/group, and larger
educational/organisational/societal levels. Concomitant with this attention to
consequences are considerations of stakeholders and the tailoring of
communication to engage intended groups. Such an approach yields a more
convincing validity argument. The monograph ends by calling on professionals
in the field to publish case studies which showcase localised validity
arguments in practice. Local case studies represent critical endeavours to
illustrate how evidence and arguments are pulled together to support the
quality of a testing programme and all that it entails.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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