TEM-8 (Test for English Majors, Band 8) is a large-scale nationwide standard test for English majors in China. It has been increasingly recognized in China and has already become one of the criteria for judging English teaching and learning in China. It is necessary to pay more attention to its development. Meanwhile, reading comprehension is regarded as vitally important in acquiring a language. It is worthy investigating how to measure reading comprehension ability accurately and properly in language testing and whether reading comprehension in TEM-8 can reflect the test-taker’s reading ability. This thesis analyzes the content validity of the reading comprehension part of TEM-8 from 2008 to 2010 in terms of the new framework of task characteristics revised from Bachman and Palmer’s framework (1996: 49), and in accordance with The Teaching Syllabus for TEM-8 and The 2004 Test Syllabus for TEM-8. This study has shown that TEM-8 reading comprehension part has relatively high content validity, basically corresponding to the requirements in the teaching syllabus and test syllabus. However, there are some deficiencies influencing the content validity of TEM-8, such as limited test method, limited data recources and time. Key words: TEM-8, Reading Comprehension, Content validity
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:hkr-8329 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | Dong, Bijin |
| Publisher | Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för Lärarutbildning |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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