Test Validity! When did we last talk? 2010! What have you been up to since then?
It's a fact which seems to leave academics scoobied . When a person finishes their MA, and gets a job outside of the University, the keys to the Ivory Tower are taken away without ceremony. This means you can't keep up with published research and thought on your discipline, (or on anything else academic). My keys were taken from me in 2010, I only got them back two months ago, and all paradigm shifts during that time have passed my by. I'm having to work hard to catch up. For example, Bonfiglio's (2010) castigation of the "native speaker" construct, and Garcia's (2009) taxonomical "emergent bilingual", are, I would suggest, significant shifts which I needed to get to grips with, and which have, furthermore, had time to mature. Today and tomorrow I need to see what test validity has been up to since 2010. My starting point will be Language Testing, (the assessment person's trade journal) starting with 2015 and working backwards, noting al...