January 1998
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looks at abstracts from LTRC conferences 1979-1995 to discover how far new perspectives on validity have entered the field second language testing.
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... One possible reason for the study's findings is that if requirements of test validation are not satisfied, tests cannot measure what they are intended to measure (Fulcher & Davidson, 2007;McNamara, 2006). Furthermore, study's results support this longstanding view that test validation incorporates three essential elements, including content, construct, and criterion (Bachman & Palmer, 2010;Hamp-Lyons & Lynch, 1998). In alignment with Messick (1994Messick ( , 1996, the study's findings may be explained from the viewpoint that validity gives meaning to test scores; that is, validity evidence shows that test performance is closely linked to performance outside the class. ...
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January 1998