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Direct linkDavies, Alan – Language Testing, 2010
This article presents the author's response to Xiaoming Xi's paper titled "How do we go about investigating test fairness?" In the paper, Xi offers "a means to fully integrate fairness investigations and practice". Given the current importance accorded to fairness in the language testing community, Xi makes a case for viewing fairness as an aspect…
Descriptors: Investigations, Testing, Language Tests, Validity
Peer reviewedDavies, Alan – Language Testing, 1988
Discusses the elusiveness of precision in language testing in relation to three major issues of linguistic analysis: 1) universality; 2) combining power; and 3) incorporation of extra language data. The results of a recent English Language Testing Service (ELTS) Test support this relationship. Language testing should accept the centrality of…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Content Validity, Language Tests, Linguistic Theory
