Department of Linguistics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Fred Davidson

Supervisor, English Placement Test, Professor of Linguistics
Professor of Educational Psychology
Professor of Curriculum and Instruction
Professor of Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education

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    University of Illinois
    Dept. of Linguistics, MC-168
    707 South Mathews Avenue
    Urbana, IL 61801
    USA

    Office: 3040 Foreign Languages Bldg.
  • Telephone: (217) 333-3563
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Research Interests

My areas of interest include language testing, research design and statistics for applied linguistics, and the history and philosophy of educational and psychological assessment. For more information, please visit my website.

http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/fgd

Publications

Books

  • Fulcher, Glenn, and Fred Davidson. Language Testing and Assessment: An Advanced Resource Book. Oxford, UK: Routledge, 2007.

Journal Articles

  • Fulcher, Glenn, and Fred Davidson. "Test Architecture, Test Retrofit." Language Testing 26.1 (2009):
  • Davidson, Fred, and Glenn Fulcher. "Tests in Society and in Learning: A Dialogue." Educational Philosophy and Theory 40.3 (2008): 407-417.
  • Davidson, Fred, and Glenn Fulcher. "The Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) and the design of language tests: A Matter of Effect." Language Teaching 40 (2007): 231-241.