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In which year did Robert Lado publish Language Testing, and J. B. Carroll give an address which marked the beginning of TOEFL? Both these events are often interpreted as marking the beginning of modern language testing.

1947
1958
1961
1969

The acronym ETS stands for:

Educational Testing Service
Edumetric Testing Society
English Test in Speaking
Entry Test Specifications

The acronym 'UCLES' stands for:

Unitary Council on Language and English Studies
University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate
Universal Certification for Language Essential Services
UnConditional Linguistic Evaluation Service

"[X noun] is a quality of test scores, and a test which is perfectly [X] would be one which would be free from errors of measurement."

Type [X noun] in the space below.

"[Y] is the most important quality of test interpretation and use....[Y] is the extent to which the inferences of decisions we make on the basis of test scores are meaningful, appropriate, and useful."

Type [Y] in the box below.

Which of these is never reported as a reliability coefficient?

T-value
Cronbach's Alpha
KR 21
Correlation Coefficient

When using a three parameter model in Item Response Theory, which is the odd one out?

Person ability
Item difficulty
Cheating
Guessing

What is the name of the newsletter of the International Language Testing Association?

International Language Testing Association Newsletter
Evaluation and Assessment
Appraisal and Estimation Quarterly
Language Testing Update

If you wanted to take part in on-line discussions relating to language testing, you would subscribe to:

LTEST-L
Linguist LIst
TESL-L
SLART-L

The URL of the most frequently visited language testing related site on the World Wide Web is:

http://www.language.test.com
http://www.infocenter.test.org/resources/evaluation.html
http://www.assessment.edu/language/testing.html
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/languagestudies/ltest/ltr.html

Look at this picture. This is the cover of which journal?

Educational Measurement
Language Testing
Language Testing Update
System

Which language tester argued the case for the Unitary Competence Hypothesis, admitting that it was incorrect in 1983?

Oller
Perkins
Valette
Lado

A 'SOPI' is a(n)

measurement philosophy based on behaviourist psychology
automated test delivery system
tape mediated oral test
language tester who does not use statistics

Look at the following graph. Is this a(n)

Regression Chart
Item Characteristic Curve
Scatterplot
Normal Distribution Curve

Which of the following language testers has published a model of communicative language ability?

Alderson
Bachman
Hughes
McNamara

Three tests are real, three aren't. Put a check against the REAL tests.

Comprehensive English Language Test
Universal Language Instrument
Bilingual Syntax Measure
Test in English for Educational Purposes
Speech Discourse Measure
Test in English for Oral Examiners (TEOE)

Underneath there are six book titles. One has been written by Charles Alderson, Caroline Clapham and Dianne Wall, one by Grant Henning and the other by Cyril Weir. Identify the three titles!

Make your own Language Tests
Understanding and Developing Language Tests
A Guide to Language Testing - Development, Evaluation and Research
Writing English Language Tests
Techniques in Testing
Language Test Construction and Evaluation

Tick the three acronyms of testing organisations.

ALTE
TEST
ABEEB
UNEXAM
CRESST
SCORE

Identify THREE crucial stages in test development.

Marketing
Item writing and moderation
Constructing post-test reports
Rater training
Pre-testing
Writing test specifications

Only one of the following tests was NOT designed in the United States. Which one?

English Proficiency Test Battery
PRE-LAS
TOEIC
Ilyin Oral Interview

Which is the odd one out?

TOEFL
TSE
TOEIC
TWE

In which country was the 1996 LTRC held?

America
Australia
Finland
Thailand

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