A Study on the Quality of Achievement Test Paper of Junior English 英语专业毕业论文.doc

A Study on the Quality of Achievement Test Paper of Junior English 内容： Abstract: Based on the theory of Bachman Palmer’s English language testing theory, this paper aims at analyzing the quality of achievement test papers of Grade8 junior English from the perspective of test validity and reliability. Then, it will make a further detail analysis about Reading Comprehension and propose some suggestions to improve this part. Keywords: Junior English Testing, test validity, reliability 1. Introduction English language testing is one of the major parts in English teaching and a measurement of education, which assesses the language ability and knowledge according to the result. Thus, English tests have been considered as an assessment mechanism that stimulates the students to achieve more in English and obtain higher scores as well as help the teacher better evaluate the students’ achievements in English. The author chooses the terminal test papers of junior English as its object of study and probes into analyzing the test validity and reliability of the test paper. The detail analyses are displayed as follows. 2. Analysis of the Quality of Test Paper When designing a test, the quality of test is one of the most important issues that the teacher must pay more attention to. According to Bachman Palmer (1999), the criteria for evaluating the quality of a test mainly include the five aspects such as reliability, validity, authenticity, interactiveness and impact. These five aspects are closely related to junior English teaching, and is also the key point of this paper. In this paper, the author is intended to analyze the validity and reliability of this terminal achievement test paper for Grade8 Junior English. 2.1. Content of the Test Paper The whole test consists of five parts: listening comprehension, which occupies 20% of the total score. Listening Comprehension consists of three parts, Sentence Listening, Dialogue Listening and Passage Listening; Multiple Choice Quest