Operationalizing Uncertainty in Language Testing: An Argument in Favour of Content Validity.

Davies, Alan

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Publication Date: 1988

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Operationalizing Uncertainty in Language Testing: An Argument in Favour of Content Validity.

Davies, Alan

Language Testing, v5 n1 p32-48 Jun 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 uncertainty and make uncertainty explicit. (Author/LMO)

Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Content Validity, Language Tests, Linguistic Theory, Pragmatics, Test Results

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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