An End-users’ Iranian Universities’ Perspective on the Quality of Genereal English Achivement Test

This study aimed to address the understandings of both instructors and students about English language assessment and also calculating the validity of General English Final Test at BA level at IAUKB, including the challenges instructors find in implementing English language assessment in the curriculum. In this research study, the participants were 140 undergraduate students of bachelor program majoring in Architecture, Psychology and Computer Engineering during the academic year of 2014-2015. To elicit data from the participants, two different questionnaires were used as the research instruments. Moreover, the answer sheets of the participants’ final test of General English were collected for content analysis. In so doing, In order to analysis the students’ answer sheet, the researcher used of item facility (IF), item difficulty (Id), item discrimination (ID), choice distribution (CD), face validity and content validity. It should be mentioned that the examination had moderate quality in terms of IF, Id, ID, CD and the validity. In addition, the students had the weak to moderate view points about the Examination but the instructors stated that the Test was so good

Keywords:

Assessment , English language , Test , Validity