秘书职业英语任务型测试的效度验证

针对专门用途英语教学发展很快,而相应测试较少的情况,开发专门用途英语测试非常有必要。任务型测试比较适合专门用途英语测试改革的方向。本文介绍了深圳信息职业技术学院秘书职业英语测试改革探索的经验,并从情景效度、理论效度、评分效度、外部效度等方面对秘书职业英语任务型测试的效度进行了验证,研究证明该测试具有较高效度,可以进行推广。     

“轮机英语”评估测试的信度和效度分析

本文针对＂轮机英语＂听力与会话评估的有效与否,采取了测试学信度和效度的方法进行分析。分析结果表明,评估体现了信度和效度的统一,具有一定的科学性和可操作性,但是也存在明显的不足,需要采取有效的方式进行完善。     

Improving assessment of learning and for learning

The focus of this article is recent work by the Assessment Reform Group (ARG) on the role of teachers' judgements in the summative use of assessment. A brief overview of the early work of the ARG is followed by discussion of the desirable properties of assessment for summative uses. The work of the ARG's Assessment Systems for the Future project provided evidence and arguments concerning the validity, reliability, impact and cost of tests and of summative assessment by teachers. Whilst there is ample evidence that the teachers' judgements are more valid than, and equally reliable as, tests, there is a danger of unwanted impact on teaching as long as results are used for ‘high stakes’ evaluation of teachers and schools. Implications for policy include an end to the practice of using the results of pupils' summative assessment, however they are derived, as the sole basis for target setting and school accountability.     

从“中国英语”的视角对国内大学英语教学的几点思考

作为一种英语变体,“中国英语”可以为当前大学英语教学存在的问题提供反思和解决的思路.从“中国英语”的视角对国内大学英语教学在语音、词汇和文化3个层面存在的问题进行了思考,并提出了相应的解决思路;认为在国内大学英语教学中不妨教点“中国英语”,学生也不妨学点“中国英语”.     

The assessment of lesson plans in teacher education: a case study in assessment validity and reliability

This paper forms part of an exploration of assessment on one part‐time higher education (HE) course: an in‐service, professional qualification for teachers and trainers in the learning and skills sector which is delivered on a franchise basis across a network of further education colleges in the north of England. This paper proposes that the validity and reliability of portfolio‐based assessment, a key component of many HE programmes in addition to the course being researched here, is contestable. Analysis of the processes of compiling portfolios for assessment, through the conceptual framework of the New Literacy Studies, suggests that the ways in which portfolios are assessed and the ways in which the crucial requisites of validity and reliability are assigned to them, mask complexities and contradictions in their creation by the student. This paper argues for a new, critical analysis of portfolio production and raises a number of questions about the validity, reliability and authenticity of the assessment process that the portfolios reify.     

浅论校内英语测试的信度和效度

语言测试是语言教学的重要环节,是测量学生语言习得成果的重要手段。衡量语言测试的关键是看它的信度和效度,好的测试是信度和效度的合理平衡的结果。拟就大学英语校内测试在信度和效度上的不足谈自己的看法,并提出相应的改进方法。     

借助思维导图提高英语教学有效性探研

思维导图凭借知识、思维的可视化优势,在教育领域发挥了不容小觑的价值,有助于教师创新设计教学内容,优化教学过程。借助思维导图开展英语教学不仅可以发展学生的英语思维,还能夯实学生的英语基础。教师应借助思维导图,深化学生单词记忆,提高学生阅读理解能力、写作能力,使学生的英语素养不断提高。     

论法律英语的精确与模糊

法律英语具有精确性、专业性、正式性、客观性等特点。总体而言,法律英语要求表达清晰、准确甚至精确,精确可以说是法律英语的灵魂与生命。但是为了实现达到精确境界的目标,法律文书的撰写人又必须使用一些意义模糊、灵活的词语。在法律英语中,精确与模糊是共存的。     

英语师范生语音水平测试信度和效度验证

衡量语言测试的关键是看它的信度和效度。原有英语师范生语音测试信度、效度较低,为此,笔者提倡引进数字平台,建立更加规范的英语师范生语音水平标准参照性考试体系,并通过该测试施测的数据,分析和验证其信度和效度。     

英语口语测试的信度与效度分析

英语口语考试的信度和效度受口试形式、评分标准和考官素质等多方面因素的影响。提高英语口试的效度和信度,需坚持英语口试形式与内容的统一,设计出科学、客观并具有可操作性的评分标准。高信度与效度的英语口语测试对教学具有积极的反拨作用。     

Finding creativity and flow in a high-stakes assessment context

Remarks by the Minister for Education and Skills underscore the accountability that public institutions and the teaching profession carry for assuring the success of the nation's education enterprise. This article challenges assumptions about the nature of education that are critical to the accountability and testing regimens currently in favor internationally. While supportive of the goals of accountability systems, it argues that higher order pedagogies that reconcile competing historical trends between ‘progressive’ and ‘back to basics’ themes are very promising in an era of important new tools. These approaches include designing classroom ecosystems in ways that routinely elicit high performance and flow-like experiences in learning. Such designs, when successful, alter the terms of accountability and testing dialogues.     

大学英语口语强训测试模式：形成性口语评价

通过对英语口语测试的研究,提出了在我校大学英语口语强训中实行形成性口语评价的建议,并在本校本科生中进行了实践。实践结果显示：这一新的口语测试模式可充分激发学生学习口语的热情,能快速提高学生的英语口语交际能力,充分验证了形成性口语评价的积极效应。     

Peer assessment in thesis oral presentation

Peer assessment has been studied in various situations and actively pursued as a means by which students are given more control over their learning and assessment achievement. This study investigated the reliability of staff and student assessments in two oral presentations with limited feedback for a school-based thesis course in engineering where the different disciplines ran their own assessment. Staff scores were generally found to be more reliable than student scores, but it was not consistent. The engineering disciplines displayed widely varying differences between the staff and student scores. A large variation in reliability was found for the different disciplines making it difficult to reconcile to a standard school-based overall grading scheme for the course when the reliability of marking was low. The results also showed that the average scores for oral presentations are generally much higher than for written examinations, based on the grade point average. Future research will need to investigate how best to develop a consistent assessment framework for oral presentations and moderation of scores for consistency, particularly for large classes where assessment are done by different groups of staff and students and collated into a single set of marks for the class.     

对彝族地区大学英语写作课教学的思考

大学英语写作作为一种书面表达形式, 是实现语言交际功能的重要途径之一, 对学生而言, 写作直接反映了学生学习和掌握英语语言的能力。本文就制约彝族地区学生写作水平提高的因素进行分析, 对培养学生大学英语写作能力的方法、途径进行探讨。     

面向二十一世纪的外语教育改革

21世纪需要能走向世界的外向型人才，我国外语教育担负着培养高素质外向型人才的神圣使命。目前外语教育存在着不少问题，极不适应新世纪的要求。着眼未来，认真分析存在的问题及原因，转变观念，深化外语教育教学改革，使学生的外语能力适应社会发展的要求。     

英语专业测试向效度妥协的理据与途径

语言测试中充满了对立统一的矛盾变量,而妥协则是解决矛盾冲突的有效手段。从英语专业测试的视角,针对当前测试中重知识轻能力以及测试的负面反拨效应等问题,提出了向效度妥协的原则。在阐述向效度妥协的相关理据的基础上,就实践该原则的有效途径进行了探讨,旨在为英语专业测试的改革提供理论支持和可行性建议。     

大学校本英语水平考试与大学英语教学中的几个核心理念

中国大学生英语能力目标界定､大学英语教学和大学生自主学习是与大学英语校本考试设计､实施密切相关的三个重要方面｡ 朱正才等(2021)已经讨论了与英语能力目标构念相关的6 个问题,本文作为其姊妹篇则主要讨论与大学英语教学和校本英语水平考试有关的6个问题,包括教学与测试的关系､分级教学､中国大学生英语能力现状与对策､自主学习以及校本英语水平考试的效度与信度｡对这些问题的看法和态度会严重影响校本考试的设计思路和价值取向,以至于会进一步影响到整个大学英语教学系统的有效性和工作效率｡     

Quantification for complex assessment: uncertainty estimation in final year project thesis assessment

A quantitative method for estimating an expected uncertainty (reliability and validity) in assessment results arising from the relativity between four variables, viz examiner's expertise, examinee's expertise achieved, assessment task difficulty and examinee's performance, was developed for the complex assessment applicable to final year project thesis assessment including peer assessment. A guide map can be generated by the method for finding expected uncertainties prior to the assessment implementation with a given set of variables. It employs a scale for visualisation of expertise levels, derivation of which is based on quantified clarities of mental images for levels of the examiner's expertise and the examinee's expertise achieved. To identify the relevant expertise areas that depend on the complexity in assessment format, a graphical continuum model was developed. The continuum model consists of assessment task, assessment standards and criterion for the transition towards the complex assessment owing to the relativity between implicitness and explicitness and is capable of identifying areas of expertise required for scale development.     

大学英语阅读能力培养中的电子档案袋评价应用

较之于传统的纸媒档案袋评价形式,电子档案袋评价具有表达形式的数字化、思维构思的创新性、传播空间的开放性、评价记录的终身性等优势,电子档案袋评价的这些优势能够克服外语阅读能力培养中一些固有问题,因此可以把电子档案袋评价应用于大学英语阅读能力培养的教学实践,本文就电子档案袋评价应用于大学英语阅读能力培养的理论依据、操作程序、应该注意的问题提出了初步设想。     

《新编大学英语》评析

随着我国大学英语教学改革不断深入,1999年5月国家教委颁布新《大学英语教学大纲》,规定“大学英语的教学目的是培养学生具有较强的阅读能力和一定的听、说、写、译能力,使他们能以英语为工具交流信息”[1](P1)。“要保证一个好的教学大纲得以有效贯彻执行,就必须有一套或多套较高质量的教材和一支素质较高的教师队伍”[2](P162)。“教材是英语信息输入的主渠道”[3](P310)。1999年8月由浙江大学主编、外语教学与研究出版社出版的《新编大学英语》在这种背景下开始在全国各类高等院校中推广。据出版商透露,经过4年努力,目前全国共有10…