Linking to the CEFR: validation using a priori and a posteriori evidence
Linking to the CEFR: validation using a priori and a posteriori evidence
Linking tests to international standards, such as the Common European Framework of Reference: learning, teaching, assessment (CEFR, Council of Europe, 2001), is a way of establishing criterion-referenced validity. This chapter reports on how CEFR scales were operationalized in practice in the course of developing the Pearson Test of English Academic. Measures to link the test to the CEFR were studied at different stages of test development. A posteriori statistical evidence was also collected from both field tests and live tests. Field test data were used to establish the extent to which scores from this test can be linked to the CEFR, which involved both a test-taker-centered approach and an item-centered approach.
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De Jong, J.
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Zheng, Y.
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30 June 2016
De Jong, J.
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Zheng, Y.
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De Jong, J. and Zheng, Y.
(2016)
Linking to the CEFR: validation using a priori and a posteriori evidence.
In,
Banerjee, J. and Tsagari, D.
(eds.)
Contemporary Second Language Assessment.
(Contemporary Applied Linguistics, 4)
London, GB.
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Linking tests to international standards, such as the Common European Framework of Reference: learning, teaching, assessment (CEFR, Council of Europe, 2001), is a way of establishing criterion-referenced validity. This chapter reports on how CEFR scales were operationalized in practice in the course of developing the Pearson Test of English Academic. Measures to link the test to the CEFR were studied at different stages of test development. A posteriori statistical evidence was also collected from both field tests and live tests. Field test data were used to establish the extent to which scores from this test can be linked to the CEFR, which involved both a test-taker-centered approach and an item-centered approach.
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