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Title

Validating second language reading examinations : establishing the validity of the GEPT through alignment with the Common European Framework of Reference / Rachel Yi-fen Wu.

Author

Wu, Rachel Yi-Fen

Publication

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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Description

xvii, 168 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

• "This volume describes an empirical framework for test validation and comparison of level-based test batteries. The Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) and two levels (Preliminary and First) of a CEFR-aligned multilevel test battery, served as external referents for a review of the similarities and differences between General English Proficiency Test (GEPT) reading components, and a five-level criterion-referenced EEFL testing system, developed in the Taiwanese education context, targeting CEFR levels B1 and B2. Findings from the studies support the validity of the GEPT in general, and suggest the procedures recommended by the Council of Europe for linking examinations to the CEFR are not effective in ensuring equivalence between different examinations targeting the same CEFR level"--
• "Validating Second Language Reading Examinations describes the development of an empirical framework for test validation and comparison of reading tests at different proficiency levels through a critical evaluation of alignment with the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). It focuses on contextual parameters, cognitive processing operations and test results and identifies parameters for the description of different levels of reading proficiency examinations. The volume explores procedures for linking tests to the CEFR and proposes both qualitative and quantitative methods that complement the procedures recommended in the Council of Europe's Relating Language Examinations to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR): A Manual, piloted in 2003 and revised 2009. Key features of the book include: - a detailed review of the literature on CEFR alignment, vertical scaling, test specifications and test comparability - a comprehensive and coherent approach to the validation of reading tests - an accessible and systematic description of procedures for collecting validity evidence based on a sound theoretical framework - a case study comparing different testing systems targeting the same CEFR level"--

Series Statement

Studies in language testing ; 41

Uniform Title

Studies in language testing 41.

Subject

• English language > Foreign speakers
• English language > Study and teaching > Foreign countries
• English language > Ability testing
• Second language acquisition > Ability testing
• Language and languages > Ability testing
• FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language
• Language Tests

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1.Introduction -- 2.Defining levels of proficiency: A literature review -- 3.Methodology -- 4.Results and discussion 1: Vertical comparisons of GEPT reading tests at CEFR B1 and B2 levels -- 5.Results and discussion 2: Horizontal comparisons between the GEPT and Cambridge English reading tests at the same CEFR levels -- 6.Conclusions and implications -- Appendices -- Appendix 1 Cognitive Processing Checklist -- Appendix 2 Contextual Parameter Proforma -- Appendix 3 Cognitive Processing Proforma.

ISBN

• 9781107443945 (paperback)
• 1107443946 (paperback)

LCCN

^^2014021019

OCLC

883207119

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Harvard Library