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VALIDITY IN LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 August 2003

Carol A. Chapelle
Carol A. Chapelle
Affiliation:
Iowa State University
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Abstract

All previous papers on language assessment in the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics make explicit reference to validity. These reviews, like other work on language testing, use the term to refer to the quality or acceptability of a test. Beneath the apparent stability and clarity of the term, however, its meaning and scope have shifted over the past years. Given the significance of changes in the conception of validity, the time is ideal to probe its meaning for language assessment.

Type
Research Article
Information
Annual Review of Applied Linguistics , Volume 19 , January 1999 , pp. 254 - 272
Copyright
1999 Cambridge University Press

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