Washback, Impact, and Validity: Ethical Concerns.

Hamp-Lyons, Liz

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ERIC Number: EJ557046

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Publication Date: 1997

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Washback, Impact, and Validity: Ethical Concerns.

Hamp-Lyons, Liz

Language Testing, v14 n3 p295-303 Nov 1997

Links the theory of washback with the broader concept of impact in educational measurement and to the recent debate on construct validity associated with Messick. Notes that for many years it was asserted that language tests negatively impacted teaching and learning, an impact known as washback. (25 references) (Author/CK)

Descriptors: Ethics, Higher Education, Language Tests, Measurement Techniques, Models, Predictive Validity, Second Language Learning, Sociolinguistics, Test Construction, Testing

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Language: English

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