A Life in Language Testing: An Interview with Charles Stansfield

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Notes

¹Some of these ended up in publications, including Powers and Stansfield (1983); Hale, Stansfield, and Duran (1984); Canale, Duran, Liskin-Gasparro, Penfield, and Stansfield (1985); Stansfield (1986b); and Butler et al. (1988).

²Some of Dr. Stansfield's publications on the SOPI are Milleret, Stansfield, and Kenyon (1991); Shohamy, Gordon, Kenyon, and Stansfield (1989); Shohamy and Stansfield (1990); Stansfield (1990, 1991, 1993a, 1993b, 1996); Stansfield & Kenyon (1992, 1993, 1995); and Stansfield et al. (1990).

³For complete information on the FCICE, see the official program Web site at http://www. ncsconline.org/D_RESEARCH/Consort-interp/fcice_exam/index.htm.

⁴Adequate Yearly Progress is the way that school accountability is established under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. It requires that schools test all students in Grades 3 to 8 plus one secondary-level grade in reading and math. Schools are evaluated as to whether the percentage of students who reach “proficient” in each grade and population subgroup is increasing toward the eventual goal of 100% in the year 2014. Actually, the goal is more like 95%, as this is the percentage of students enrolled at the time of testing who have to participate in the testing program.

⁵Some of the publications on language aptitude are Reed (2004), Reed and Stansfield (2004), and Stansfield and Reed (2004).