This volume covers the major genres within the New Testament and broadens Biblical hermeneutics to cover not only the Bible, but also Asian American literature and films, genome research and events such as September 11.
... his reading of the movie as simultaneously criticizing and romanticizing the
determinism or triumphalism signified by the genome project has important
implications for apocalyptic. The same is true of Clayton's comments on the
movie's heterosexist cleansing, since the homophobic movement has at times
portrayed the so-called gay agenda as the very coming of the apocalypse (see,
for example, Herman 1997). To push Clayton's reading a step further, what
Gattaca implies is that, ...
Drawing on the second language performance assessment item specifications created in Technical Report 18, this volume describes the creation of actual performance assessment instruments and their validation. After briefly reviewing the background to the project, the book explains the test and rating scale development processes and the administration of the resulting seven-task tests to 60 students from the University of Hawai'i (30 on Form P and 30 on Form Q) and 30 students from the Kanda University of International Studies (on Form J). The results based on task-dependent, task-independent, and self-rating scales are examined in terms of descriptive statistics, multi-faceted Rasch model analyses, reliability estimates, and correlational analyses. These results are discussed at length in terms of the effects of test revision, and in terms of comparisons among the task-dependent, task-independent, and self-rating scales especially with regard to their reliability and validity.
Drawing on the second language performance assessment item specifications created in Technical Report 18, this volume describes the creation of actual performance assessment instruments and their validation.
Expanding the Language Proficiency Construct Across a Variety of Tests
This volume presents eight research studies that introduce a variety of novel, non-traditional forms of second and foreign language assessment. To the extent possible, the studies also show the entire test development process, warts and all. -- Back cover.
