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Purposes of assessment

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter Peer-review

Abstract

Commissioned as the lead paper in the Volume, this chapter shows how the terms assessment, testing, examining and evaluation have become increasingly intertwined, and multiple new terms have emerged. The chapter takes a somewhat historical view as it lays out a picture of the ways that the field of language ‘assessment’ has expanded its knowledge and skills but also its socio-political effects. Taking the notion of ‘purposes’ as a broad organizing principle, the chapter is intended to introduce new readers in this field to the wide range of issues current in the field, and prepare them for the more specific chapters that follow.

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Output type

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 13-28

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/11/2016

Publication status

Published - 01/11/2016

Place of publication

The Hague

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Germany, Poland

Publication series

  • Publication series name: Handbooks of Applied Linguistics
    Number: 12

ISBN (Print)

9781614515425

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/622443
  • Scopus: 85008376940

Host publication title

Handbook of second language assessment

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