Diagnostic Assessment: Selected References

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DIAGNOSTIC ASSESSMENT: SELECTED REFERENCES

(last updated 22 March 2014)

Alderson, J. C. (2005). Diagnosing foreign language proficiency: The interface between learning and assessment. London: Continuum.

Alderson, J. C. (2007). The challenge of (diagnostic) testing: Do we know what we are measuring? In J. Fox, M. Wesche, D. Bayliss, L. Cheng, C. Turner, & C. Doe (Eds.), Language testing reconsidered (pp. 21-39). Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press.

Alderson, J. C. (2005). The development of a suite of computer-based diagnostic tests based on the Common European Framework. Language Testing, 22, 301-320.

Collins, A. (1990). Reformulating testing to measure learning and thinking. In N. Frederiksen, R. Glaser, A. Lesgold, & M. Shafto (Eds.), Diagnostic monitoring of skill and knowledge acquisition (pp. 75-88). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

DiBello, L. V., Roussos, L. A., & Scout, W. (2007). Review of cognitive diagnostic assessment and a summary of psychometric models. In C. R. Rao & S. Sinharay (Eds.), Handbook of statistics, Vol. 26: Psychometrics (pp. 45-79). Amsterdam: Elsevier Science.

DiBello, L. V., Stout, W. F., & Roussos, L. A. (1995). Unified cognitive/psychometric diagnostic assessment likelihood-based classification techniques. In N. Frederiksen, R. Glaser, A. Lesgold, & M. Shafto (Eds.), Diagnostic monitoring of skill and knowledge acquisition (pp. 361-390). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Edelenbos, P., & Kubanek-German, A. (2004). Teacher assessment: The concept of “diagnostic competence.” Language Testing, 21, 259-283.

Frederiksen, N., Glaser, R., Lesgold, A., & Shafto, M. (Eds.) (1990). Diagnostic monitoring of skill and knowledge acquisition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Hartz, S. M., & Roussos, L. A. (2005). The Fusion Model for skills diagnosis: Blending theory with practice, ETS Research Report. Princeton, NJ: Educational Testing Service.

Jang, E. E. (2008a). A framework for cognitive diagnostic assessment. In C. A. Chappelle, Y.-R. Chung, & J. Xu (Eds.), Towards adaptive CALL: Natural language processing for diagnostic language assessment (pp. 117-131). Ames, IA: Iowa State University.

Jang, E. E. (2008b). Book review, J. P. Leighton & M. J. Gierl (Eds.), Cognitive diagnostic assessment for education: Theory and practice. International Journal of Testing, 8(3), 290-295.

Jang, E. E. (2009). Cognitive diagnostic assessment of L2 reading comprehension ability: Validity arguments for Fusion Model application to LanguEdge assessment. Language Testing, 26, 31-73.

Knoch, U. (2009). Diagnostic writing assessment: The development and validation of a rating scale. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.

Kunnan, A., & Jang, E.E. (2009). Diagnostic feedback in language testing. In M. Long & C. Doughty (Eds.), The handbook of language teaching (pp. 610-625). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

Leighton, J. P., & Gierl, M. J. (Eds.) (2007). Cognitive diagnostic assessment for education: Theory and practices.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Linn, R. L. (1990). Diagnostic testing. In N. Frederiksen, R. Glaser, A. Lesgold, & M. Shafto (Eds.), Diagnostic monitoring of skill and knowledge acquisition (pp. 489-498). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Nicols, P. D., Chipman, S. F., & Brennan, R. L. (Eds.) (1995). Cognitively diagnostic assessment. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Sheehan, K. M. (1997). A tree-based approach to proficiency scaling and diagnostic assessment. Journal of Educational Measurement, 34, 333-352.

Shohamy, E. (1992). Beyond performance testing: A diagnostic feedback testing model for assessing foreign language learning. Modern Language Journal, 76, 513-521.

Shohamy, E. (2001). The power of tests: A crucial perspective of the uses of language tests. London: Longman/Pearson Education.

Spolsky, B. (1992). Diagnostic testing revisited. In E. Shohamy & A. R. Walton (Eds.), Language assessment and feedback: Testing and other strategies (pp. 29-39). National Foreign Language Center. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co.

Urmston, A., Raquel, M., & Tsang, C. (2103). Diagnostic testing of Hong Kong tertiary students’ English language proficiency:The development and validation of DELTA. Hong Kong Journal of Applied Linguistics, 14(2), 60-82.

von Davier, M. (2005). A General diagnostic model applied to language testing data. ETS Research Report RR-05-16. Princeton, NJ: Educational Testing Service.

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