Abstract
An elderly student of language testing recalls some of the events in his career, attempting to relate them to current issues, and touching on such topics as overall language proficiency, the cloze and the noise test, the social responsibility of language testers, the development of industrial language testing, the danger of scales, and the value of knowing the history of one's field.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Language Testing Reconsidered |
Publisher | University of Ottawa Press |
Pages | 9-18 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780776606576 |
State | Published - 2007 |