Language testing courses: What are they in 2007?

Language Testing

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 349-383

  Brown, Dean James ^a   Bailey, Kathleen M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b MONTEREY INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes toward language testing; Course characteristics; Descriptive statistics; Item analysis; Language testing courses; Survey research; Test consistency; Test validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 61549087764     PISSN: 02655322     EISSN: 14770946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265532208090157     Document Type: Article

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