Fairness of language tests and testing practices has always been a concern among test developers and test users. In the past decade educational and language assessment researchers have begun to focus directly on fairness and related matters such as test standards, test bias and equity and ethics for testing professionals. The 19th annual Language Testing Research Colloquium held in 1997 in Orlando, Florida, brought this overall concern into sharp focus by having 'Fairness in Language Testing' as its theme. The conference presentations and discussions attempted to understand the concept of fairness, define the scope of the concept and connect it with the concept of validation of test score interpretation. The papers in this volume offer a first introduction to fairness and validation in the field of language assessment.
This is Book 9 in the Studies in Language Testing Series. See all Studies in Language Testing books here.
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Antony John Kunnan is Professor of English Language and Literature at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has authored and edited books and edited special issues of journals on test validation, test fairness, statistics for language assessment, differential item functioning, and structural equation modeling. H
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