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An Explorative Study on the Validity Evidence of Cloze in 2010 NMET

Author: LuoYiLin
Tutor: WangShunYu
School: Southwestern University
Course: Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Keywords: Matriculation English volumes Cloze Validity based on
CLC: G633.41
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2011
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Abstract

As one of the important ways of selection of personnel, the college entrance examination has been subject to the attention of experts and scholars. With the vigorous development of the new curriculum reform of college entrance examination has also entered a new stage. Volume for the college entrance examination in English, there to study in-depth discussion of the various kinds of questions. The cloze papers developers recognized its convenient and economical characteristics, cloze few. Most of these studies, however, still remain in the discussion or comparison of different forms of problem solving strategies, the research is the focus of the validity and reliability of the college entrance examination. Before for the college entrance examination validity of many studies are based on the traditional concept of validity and classification, easy overlap confuse many classification. In order to standardize the validity should be uniform standards to guide. Such as the American Psychological Association in 1999 to develop educational psychology measurement standards, and is recognized internationally accepted industry standards. According to the \. The paper uses based on the concept of validity and classification, to explore the validity of Cloze in the college entrance examination in English volume basis, intends to enhance the validity of the research to a certain height, with a common international standard to guide domestic testing and teaching, specific and practical meaning and value. This article aims to explore the the 2010 Matriculation English volume Cloze validity basis, in order to find college entrance volume of Cloze test to the candidate's ability to understand and Pragmatic Competence. The study focused on the address four issues: 1) the difficulty of the test scores of all candidates and discrimination are how much? 2) expert evaluation of how the papers? Cloze relationship 3) mainland college entrance examination and college entrance examination in Taiwan? 4 ) candidates and teachers' the Cloze attitude? research questions, the main use of the method of the observation evaluation and statistics. The object of this study is 122 Chongqing City, a high school third grade students and their English teachers. The students are required to complete the test questions and a set of 2005 volumes contain a four Cloze Cloze. Four Cloze were taken from the 2010 college entrance examination in English Guangdong volume volume Chongqing, Hubei volumes and the national volume, because the four editions of provinces, municipalities, has joined the curriculum reform on behalf of the four batches. Subsequently, interviews with randomly selected two students and their English teachers to obtain their attitude on the Cloze. Based on the research, found the following: First, higher the examination papers Juanmian validity, selected materials without biased suspected of moderate length, interference terms set more reasonable. Secondly, through the comparative analysis of difficulty and discrimination, concluded: lower four cloze difficulty of Guangdong volume is most easily; distinguish between degrees of the four sets of questions are relatively high. Again, the evaluation of the experts to give papers, and cultural background and with related topics is not enough, but the overall content validity of the papers to be realized. By comparison with the volume of Taiwan, the study found that although Taiwan volumes Cloze divided into a number of select and set the library two kinds of questions, but domestic volume four cloze are with Taiwan volumes between the two kinds of questions twenty-two, There was a significant positive correlation, the 2010 college entrance examination in English Volume Cloze and 2005 papers Cloze measurement constructs. Finally, through interviews with students and teachers, the study found, the idea of ??the students and teachers in the the Cloze test focus and difficulty on a slightly different, but Cloze importance and necessity are certainly. Although the studies inadequacies in the sampling and papers ready there, but the main outcome is that industry standard used in domestic validity of the measurement field abroad, combined with domestic standards and the actual situation of the validity based on a certain depth and breadth of exploration, provide a useful revelation about the the validity basis and the college entrance examination in English papers design, can help researchers, papers developers as well as English teachers Cloze and validity based learn more about the English test and teaching effect.

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