Statistical Analyses for Language Assessment Book
Title | Statistical Analyses for Language Assessment Book PDF eBook |
Author | Lyle F. Bachman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 382 |
Release | 2004-11-18 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 0521802776 |
This book provides language teachers with guidelines to develop suitable listening tests.
Statistical Analyses for Language Assessment Workbook and CD ROM
Title | Statistical Analyses for Language Assessment Workbook and CD ROM PDF eBook |
Author | Lyle Bachman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 182 |
Release | 2005-04-07 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9780521609067 |
This book enables practitioners to apply statistics effectively to the development and use of language assessments. This is a Workbook and CD ROM pack which will support the main text. Each chapter will offer activities to parallel the chapters in the book. The activities are intended to provide readers with opportunities to work with and apply the concepts and procedures presented, using datasets from language assessment research.
Statistical Analyses for Language Testers
Title | Statistical Analyses for Language Testers PDF eBook |
Author | R. Green |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 369 |
Release | 2013-04-08 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1137018291 |
Provides a step-by-step approach to the most useful statistical analyses for language test developers and researchers using IBM SPSS, Winsteps and Facets. It contains clearly-worked out examples for each analysis with detailed explanations.
Quantitative Data Analysis for Language Assessment Volume I
Title | Quantitative Data Analysis for Language Assessment Volume I PDF eBook |
Author | Vahid Aryadoust |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 303 |
Release | 2019-03-27 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1351741225 |
Quantitative Data Analysis for Language Assessment Volume I: Fundamental Techniques is a resource book that presents the most fundamental techniques of quantitative data analysis in the field of language assessment. Each chapter provides an accessible explanation of the selected technique, a review of language assessment studies that have used the technique, and finally, an example of an authentic study that uses the technique. Readers also get a taste of how to apply each technique through the help of supplementary online resources that include sample data sets and guided instructions. Language assessment students, test designers, and researchers should find this a unique reference as it consolidates theory and application of quantitative data analysis in language assessment.
Statistical Analyses for Language Assessment Book
Title | Statistical Analyses for Language Assessment Book PDF eBook |
Author | Lyle F. Bachman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2004-11-18 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9780521003285 |
Statistical Analyses for Language Assessment enables practitioners to apply statistics effectively to the development and use of language assessments. The Workbook and CD contain datasets from actual language assessments and data analysis exercises.
The R Software
Title | The R Software PDF eBook |
Author | Pierre Lafaye de Micheaux |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business |
Total Pages | 654 |
Release | 2014-05-13 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 1461490200 |
The contents of The R Software are presented so as to be both comprehensive and easy for the reader to use. Besides its application as a self-learning text, this book can support lectures on R at any level from beginner to advanced. This book can serve as a textbook on R for beginners as well as more advanced users, working on Windows, MacOs or Linux OSes. The first part of the book deals with the heart of the R language and its fundamental concepts, including data organization, import and export, various manipulations, documentation, plots, programming and maintenance. The last chapter in this part deals with oriented object programming as well as interfacing R with C/C++ or Fortran, and contains a section on debugging techniques. This is followed by the second part of the book, which provides detailed explanations on how to perform many standard statistical analyses, mainly in the Biostatistics field. Topics from mathematical and statistical settings that are included are matrix operations, integration, optimization, descriptive statistics, simulations, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing, simple and multiple linear regression, and analysis of variance. Each statistical chapter in the second part relies on one or more real biomedical data sets, kindly made available by the Bordeaux School of Public Health (Institut de Santé Publique, d'Épidémiologie et de Développement - ISPED) and described at the beginning of the book. Each chapter ends with an assessment section: memorandum of most important terms, followed by a section of theoretical exercises (to be done on paper), which can be used as questions for a test. Moreover, worksheets enable the reader to check his new abilities in R. Solutions to all exercises and worksheets are included in this book.
Interpreting Assessment Data
Title | Interpreting Assessment Data PDF eBook |
Author | Edwin P. Christmann |
Publisher | NSTA Press |
Total Pages | 209 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1933531363 |
Provides a practical approach which helps teachers understand how to interpret student assessments statistically and how to measure and explain the validity and reliability of those assessments. This framework for measuring and interpreting assessment results is a must-have for your professional development library.