The essentials of assessment literacy: Contrasts between testers and users

Language Testing

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 329-344

  Malone, Margaret E ^a  

^a CENTER FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment literacy; language assessment literacy; language teacher development; tutorials

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880644450     PISSN: 02655322     EISSN: 14770946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265532213480129     Document Type: Article

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