Part One Testing Proficiency and Achievement

1．Testing Proficiency and Achievement:Principles and Practice

2．Metalinguistic Knowledge,Language Aptitude and Language Proficiency

3．Diagnosing Foreign Language Proficiency:A Teaching/Testing Interface

4．Bands and Scores

5．Sequencing as an Item Type

6．Native and Nonnative Speaker Performance on Cloze Tests

7．The Effect on the Cloze Test of Changes in Deletion Frequency

8．The Testing of Reading

9．Testing Reading Comprehension Skills(Part Two):Getting Students to Talk about Taking a Reading Test(a Pilot Study)

10．The CEFR and the Need for More Research

11．What Does PESTI Have to Do with Us Testers?

Part Two Testing English for Specific Purposes

12．Testing English for Specific Purposes:How Specific Can We Get?

13．Testing and Its Administration in ESP

14．A Course in Testing and Evaluation for ESP Teachers or"How Bad Were My Tests?"

15．Testing in EAP:Progress?Achievement?Proficiency?

Part Three Language Testing and Program Evaluation

16．The State of Language Testing in the 1990s

17．Language Testing in the 1990s:How Far Have We Come?How Much Further Have We to Go?

18．Examining Washback:the Sri Lankan Impact Study

19．Computers in Language Testing

20．Technology in Testing:the Present and the Future

21．Innovations and Challenges in Diagnostic Testing

22．Evaluating a Placement Test

23．Guidelines for the Evaluation of Language Education

24．Towards a Theory of Participatory Evaluation:Insights from Applied Linguistics