本中心於2010年6月22日邀請國際知名語言測驗專家Antony John Kunnan 教授以How are we to evaluate a language assessment? 為主題，與眾多聽眾分享他的研究心得與觀察。Kunnan教授是加州州立大學洛杉磯分校的應用與高等教育學院院長，為Test Taker Characteristics and Test Performance: A Structural Modeling Approach(Cambridge, 1995) 一書的作者、Language Assessment Quarterly期刊的主編，亦曾編輯過Validation in Language Assessment(Lawrence Erlbaum, 1998) 與Fairness and Validation in Language Assessment (Cambridge, 1999) 等書。

Kunnan教授主張測驗必須有益於社會，因此評估一項測驗的適切性必須包含對於測驗情境及測驗公平性的分析，並以實證確認：其中測驗的背景(test context) 方面，可以從政治、經濟環境、教育、社會、文化、測驗與評分模式、及法律層面等角度切入，而測驗的公平性(test fairness) 則可從測驗的信度與效度、測驗偏差程度(test bias)、測驗的便利性(test access)、施測程序的一致性(test administration)、及測驗結果的運用(test consequence) 來探討。Kunnan教授並於演說中以實例說明測驗背景及測驗公平性在語言測驗中的重要性。

On June 22, 2010, the LTTC invited Professor Antony John Kunnan, an internationally-noted scholar in the field of language assessment, to give a lecture entitled “How Are We to Evaluate A Language Assessment?” and share his research experience and observations with a large audience. Professor Kunnan is currently Division Chair of Applied and Advanced Studies in Education at California State University, Los Angeles. He is the author of Test Taker Characteristics and Test Performance: A Structural Modeling Approach (Cambridge, 1995) and the editor of the journal Language Assessment Quarterly. He has edited books such as Validation in Language Assessment and Fairness (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1998) and Validation in Language Assessment (Cambridge, 1999).

Professor Kunnan believes that tests should benefit society, and for this to take place test evaluations must include analyses from the Test Context Framework and the Fairness Framework combined with validation evidence . The Context Framework examines tests from political, economic, educational, social, cultural, infrastructure and legal perspectives, while the Fairness Framework analyzes tests on the basis of validity, absence of bias, access, administration and consequences. In his lecture, Professor Kunnan also gave examples to demonstrate the importance of applying these two frameworks.