NEIL JONES,劍橋大學(xué)考試委員會(huì)外語考試部,IRT語言測試運(yùn)用博士。NICK SAVILLE,歐洲語言測試者協(xié)會(huì)主席、劍橋大學(xué)考試委員會(huì)測試研發(fā)總監(jiān),語言測評(píng)博士。
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Contents 導(dǎo) 讀 辜向東 李玉龍 iv Abbreviations xv Acknowledgements xvi Series Editors’note xviii 1 Learning Oriented Assessment: An overview 1 1.1 The organisation of this volume 7 1.2 What is learning? 8 1.3 What is language learning? 9 1.4 What is to be learned? 10 1.5 The roles of assessment in learning 11 1.6 Aligning large-scale and classroom assessment 14 1.7 In summary 15 2 The roots of Learning Oriented Assessment 17 2.1 Cambridge English and Learning Oriented Assessment 18 2.2 Origins and emphases of learning-oriented approaches 18 2.3 Defining learning-oriented assessment: Process, policy or principles? 27 2.4 Specific learning-oriented methods 32 3 What is learning? 35 3.1 Constructivism 35 3.2 An appropriate model of cognition and learning 37 3.3 Task-based interaction 39 3.4 Roles of teachers and learners 47 3.5 In summary 54 4 What is language learning? 56 4.1 Languages as a special case 56 4.2 The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages 57 4.3 Natural language acquisition 59 4.4 Second Language Acquisition research 60 4.5 In summary 66 5 What is to be learned? 67 5.1 The desired outcomes of learning 67 5.2 The nature of language proficiency: Construct definition 71 5.3 The content of learning: Curricular objectives 75 5.4 In summary 76 6 The role of large-scale assessment in learning 78 6.1 Proficiency testing: The importance of criterion reference 79 6.2 Scale construction 80 6.3 Item Response Theory 82 6.4 Item banking 83 6.5 Performance assessment 85 6.6 Validity and reliability of large-scale assessment 86 6.7 Large-scale assessment: Evidence of and for learning 90 6.8 In summary 91 7 Learning-oriented assessment in the classroom 93 7.1 The nature of classroom learning-oriented assessment 93 7.2 Domain-specific and generalisable learning skills 95 7.3 Learning-centred and content-centred act