多项选择题型所产生的虚假分数对高中英语听力理解测试效度影响的研究-学科教学(英语)专业论文.docxVIP

A Study of Influence of Error Scores Generated by Multiple-choice on Validity of English Listening Comprehension Tests for Senior High School Students By Deng Ying Supervisor: Professor Pei Xuemei Submitted to The School of Foreign Studies In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Master of Education in English Teaching Anhui Normal University Anhui, China May, 2015 Acknowledgments Though it is not easy to finish this dissertation, I still treasure the time of fighting for myself. I would like to express my gratitude to people who were invaluable to the production of this dissertation. First, my sincere thanks should go to my supervisor Prof. Pei Xuemei who sacrifice her time for my dissertation. Without her instructive suggestions and valuable comments, the present thesis would not have been accomplished. Next, I wish to thank my roommate for accompanying me during the writing. The support from her gives me strength to carry on. If it had not her help, the dissertation would also have never been finished. Finally, I greatly appreciate my parents’ love and care. Their encouragement help me overcome numerous difficulties. Abstract Listening is the basic condition of language acquisition. Meanwhile listening comprehension test is of great importance in testing English learners’ listening competence. Multiple-choice (MC) as an effective testing technique is widely used in listening comprehension tests. According to statistics of the previous five years’ National Matriculation English Tests, only four provinces have used some different types of testing techniques other than MC in listening part. In the resent twenty years, researches home and abroad have focused on the disadvantages of MC. Among them, the viewpoint that MC facilitates students’ guessing behavior, reduces the difficulty of tests and tends to produce error scores gets the most concern. However, there are a few experts or scholars analyzing the error scores generated by MC and its negat