Sigott

This Festschrift has been compiled to honour Günther Sigott for his notable contributions to academia in general and to the field of language testing in particular. The contributors to this volume come from all over the world, spanning regions from Austria and its neighbouring countries Slovenia and Germany, to the UK, USA, all the way to Japan and Iran. They work as test developers, teacher educators, psychometricians and researchers, taking up a variety of subjects such as washback of standardized tests, the acknowledgement of language varieties in high-stakes exams, fostering language assessment literacy or psychometric models to enhance C-test interpretations or scoring validity

Nikola Dobric is a Senior Scientist at the Department of English, University of Klagenfurt, Austria. His main research interests are assessment of writing, rater cognition, language assessment in general, and corpus linguistics.

Hermann Cesnik is a statistician from the Language Testing Center and the Central Computing Services (ZID) at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. His main research interests are theory of measurement and psychometrics in the broad area of language assessment.

Claudia Harsch is Professor of Research into Language Learning and Teaching at the University of Bremen, Germany. Her main research interests are language assessment, teacher education, and the implementation of the Common European Framework of Reference.