ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses test review the examination of the characteristics of items with the intent to ensure to meet standards of technical quality with regard to the assessment of ELL students. Test review is discussed as an activity that promotes critical thinking about test instruments and helps educators to address the complex interaction between the characteristics of test items and the characteristics of students. The chapter explains the main goals of test review and presents a simple classification of types of test review. It shows how judgments about the quality of test items can be made based on their complexity and the ways in which they appear to be aligned to the content of normative standards or consistent with the ways in which content is taught in the classroom. The chapter explores test item quality based on the cognitive processes underlying the ways in which students make sense of test items and respond to them.
