ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the responsible of language testing, and ask how far the responsibility of the language tester goes and identify the limits for their and a good place to start the Codes of Ethics and of Practice, which have proliferated in recent years among the various language testing associations, eager to professionalize themselves. The Association of Language Testers in Europe (ALTE) distinguishes between the responsibilities of ALTE members and the responsibilities of examination users. It has revised their Code of Practice as detailed questionnaires in the form of checklists. These self-assessment checklists are set out in the areas of test design and construction, administration, processing, and analysis and review. The American Educational Research Association (AERA), which is a much larger body than the three language testing organizations discussed so far. As for responsibility for test use, this must be limited, as Fulcher and Davidson point out, to the purpose for which the designer has validated the test.
