OUC英语测试理论期末小组论文.pdfVIP

Validity of College English Placement Test Group 2 Pan Haidong, Zudi, Lixu Director:ViVian June 7, 2014 Ocean University of China 1 I. Introduction Freshmen need to take college English placement test when they enter Ocean University of China. College English placement test is intended to provide information that will help to place students at the stage of the teaching programme most appropriate to their abilities .However, we are not sure whether the test is valid or invalid. Therefore, based on the theory of language testing, we analyze the validity of college English placement test 2012 specificly below. We need empirical evidence to assert that whether our test has construct validity or not.Such evidence take several forms,including the subordinate forms of validity,content validity and criterion-related validity.We shall discuss these two forms of evidence in turn ,then turn to other forms of evidence. II. First, we study the content validity of the test. A: Definition of content validity A test is said to have content validity if its content constitutes a representative sample of the language skills, structures, etc. with which it is meant to be concerned. B:The college English placement test in Ocean University of China has low content validity. The greater a test‟s content validity, the more likely it is to be an accurate measure of what it is supposed to measure. And this college English placement test is intended to measure freshmen‟s English abilities in order to place them at different stages. the test‟s composition is as follows: Weighting Part Component Number of test items