As one of the volumes in the series “New Perspectives on Language Assessment” published by Routledge in 2018, Evaluating Language Assessments centers around an ethics-based approach to assessment evaluation in terms of fairness and justice. The author of the book, Dr. Kunnan, is now Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Macau. He earned his doctoral degree on Applied Linguistics from University of California, Los Angeles, in 1991 under the supervision of Prof. Bachman, the most influential founding father in the field of language testing. The author, as a prominent expert in the field, has published numerous books and articles mainly in relation to fairness and justice in language assessment, language policy, and statistical analysis. This book epitomizes his previous academic endeavors and distills them into a theoretical framework of ethics-oriented assessment evaluation. The volume is comprised of 10 chapters, which can be classified into three broad parts: Introduction, Body, and Summary, serving the clarification of why-, what-, and how-issues of the new approach to assessment evaluation. To begin with, Introduction (Chapters 1 and 2) presents the reason for developing a new approach to assessment evaluation from two aspects. For one thing, Chapter 1 focuses on the necessity of regularly evaluating assessments, as exemplified by the problems with fairness in language assessments in a variety of contexts (e.g., civil service, literacy, immigration, and schooling) which were never challenged by either test takers or the community, though. For another, two existing approaches to assessment evaluation (i.e., the Standards-based and the Argument-based approaches) are reviewed in Chapter 2. Specifically, the following deficiencies are pointed out: no intellectual foundation, fairness included only as one aspect of the evaluation, no attention paid to institutional justice, and narrow scope of fairness investigation. These two chapters set the background for the new approach. Next, this new approach—the ethics-based approach to evaluation of fairness and justice in assessments, together with how to apply it—is mainly covered in the Body (Chapters 3–9), which is the most important part of the book. Specifically, Chapter 3 elaborates on the theoretical (intellectual) basis of the new approach. The author, drawing on theoretical views of justice proposed by two moral philosophers—Rawls and Sen, discusses what should be considered in the application of ethics to language assessment. They are, respectively, two fundamental issues (i.e., universal or contextual, fact-independent or fact-dependent), four fundamental aspects (i.e., transparency, equity, impartiality, and uniformity), and six fundamental questions related to individual rights, consequences of assessment and public justification. Then, built on previous studies on ethics-based principles in language testing (e.g., International Language Testing Association [ILTA] Code of Ethics), two general principles of fairness and justice and their respective subprinciples are put forward. 895696 JPAXXX10.1177/0734282919895696Journal of Psychoeducational AssessmentBook Review book-review2019

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书评：评估语言评估，Kunnan, AJ

作为 Routledge 于 2018 年出版的“语言评估的新视角”系列中的一本书，《评估语言评估》围绕基于公平和公正的基于伦理的评估方法进行。该书的作者昆南博士现为澳门大学应用语言学教授。他于 1991 年在加州大学洛杉矶分校获得应用语言学博士学位，师从语言测试领域最有影响力的创始人巴赫曼教授。作者作为该领域的杰出专家，出版了大量书籍和文章，主要涉及语言评估、语言政策和统计分析中的公平和正义。本书概括了他以往的学术努力，并将其提炼为以伦理为导向的评估评估的理论框架。该卷由 10 章组成，可分为三个主要部分：引言、正文和摘要，旨在阐明评估评估新方法的原因、内容和方式问题。首先，引言（第 1 章和第 2 章）从两个方面介绍了开发评估评估新方法的原因。一方面，第 1 章侧重于定期评估评估的必要性，例如在从未受到任何测试挑战的各种环境（例如，公务员、识字、移民和学校教育）中语言评估的公平性问题。不过，接受者或社区。为别人，第 2 章回顾了现有的两种评估评估方法（即基于标准的方法和基于论证的方法）。具体指出以下不足：没有知识基础，公平性仅作为评估的一个方面，没有重视制度公正，公平调查范围狭窄。这两章为新方法奠定了背景。接下来，这种新方法——基于伦理的评估公平和公正的方法，以及如何应用它——主要在正文（第 3-9 章）中进行了介绍，这是本书最重要的部分。具体而言，第 3 章详细阐述了新方法的理论（知识）基础。作者借鉴了两位道德哲学家罗尔斯和森提出的正义理论观点，讨论将伦理学应用于语言评估时应考虑的因素。它们分别是两个基本问题（即普遍的或上下文的、独立于事实的或依赖于事实的）、四个基本方面（即透明、公平、公正和统一），以及与个人权利、后果相关的六个基本问题评估和公开理由。然后，在先前关于语言测试中基于伦理的原则的研究（例如，国际语言测试协会 [ILTA] 道德规范）的基础上，提出了公平和公正的两个一般原则及其各自的子原则。895696 JPAXXX10.1177/0734282919895696Journal of Psychoeducational AssessmentBook Review book-review2019 分别是两个基本问题（即普遍的或上下文的、独立于事实的或依赖于事实的）、四个基本方面（即透明度、公平、公正和统一），以及与个人权利、评估结果和结果相关的六个基本问题。公开的理由。然后，在先前关于语言测试中基于伦理的原则的研究（例如，国际语言测试协会 [ILTA] 道德规范）的基础上，提出了公平和公正的两个一般原则及其各自的子原则。895696 JPAXXX10.1177/0734282919895696Journal of Psychoeducational AssessmentBook Review book-review2019 分别是两个基本问题（即普遍的或上下文的、独立于事实的或依赖于事实的）、四个基本方面（即透明度、公平、公正和统一），以及与个人权利、评估结果和结果相关的六个基本问题。公开的理由。然后，在先前关于语言测试中基于伦理的原则的研究（例如，国际语言测试协会 [ILTA] 道德规范）的基础上，提出了公平和公正的两个一般原则及其各自的子原则。895696 JPAXXX10.1177/0734282919895696Journal of Psychoeducational AssessmentBook Review book-review2019 以及与个人权利、评估结果和公共辩护相关的六个基本问题。然后，在先前关于语言测试中基于伦理的原则的研究（例如，国际语言测试协会 [ILTA] 道德规范）的基础上，提出了公平和公正的两个一般原则及其各自的子原则。895696 JPAXXX10.1177/0734282919895696Journal of Psychoeducational AssessmentBook Review book-review2019 以及与个人权利、评估结果和公共辩护相关的六个基本问题。然后，在先前关于语言测试中基于伦理的原则的研究（例如，国际语言测试协会 [ILTA] 道德规范）的基础上，提出了公平和公正的两个一般原则及其各自的子原则。895696 JPAXXX10.1177/0734282919895696Journal of Psychoeducational AssessmentBook Review book-review2019