Assessing the Validity and Reliability of General English Achievement Test: An End-users’ Iranian Universities’ Perspective
Publish place: International Conference on Science and Engineering
Publish Year: 1394
نوع سند: مقاله کنفرانسی
زبان: English
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ICESCON01_0187
تاریخ نمایه سازی: 25 بهمن 1394
Abstract:
This study aimed to address the understandings of both instructors and students about English language assessment and also calculating the validity and reliability of General English Final Test at BA level at IAUKB, including the challenges instructors find in implementing English lang uage assessment in the curriculum. In this research study, the participants were 041undergraduate students of bachelor program majoring in Architecture, Psychology and Computer Engineering during the academic year of 4104-4102. 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), reliability, face validity and content validity. Furthermore, for estimating the reliability of the whole exam, KR-40 method was used. As the results showed the reliability of the Final General English Test was 1800 and acceptable. 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.
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Shohreh Yoosefi
Isfahan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran
Hossein Heidari Tabrizi
Isfahan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran
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