4TestingReadingComprehension.ppt

Discussion Whataretheadvantagesanddisadvantagesofobjectivetest Advantages EasytoscoreReliablescoreDisadvantages Discreteskill nocontext onlyreceptiveskill Notreflectiveoftestee slanguageproficiency Difficulttodesign Elementofguessing Subjectiveandobjectivetest Themosttypicalobjectivetest Themosttypicalsubjectivetest Transformationcloze变形完形填空Letterdeletioncloze删字母完形填空 Otherobjectivetests Transformationcloze变形完形填空 YesterdaywhileI take awalkinthepark I meet anoldfriendofmine We be veryglad see eachotherbecausewe nothear fromeachotherformorethantenyears Letterdeletioncloze删字母完形填空 Yesterdaywh Iw takingawalki thepa Im ano friendo mine W wereve gladt seeea otherbec weh nothe fromea otherf moreth tenye Othersubjectivetests TranslationQuestionansweringTermexplanation TestingReadingComprehension ReadingskillsTypesofreadingtestsSelectingmaterialsforwritingreadingtestsWritingoftestitems Readingskills J Heaton1988 Recognizewordsandwordgroups Deducethemeaningofwords Understandexplicitlystatedinformation Understandrelationswithinthesentence Understandrelationsbetweenpartsofatextthroughbothlexicaldeviceandgrammaticalcohesivedevices Perceivetemporalandspatialrelationships sequencesofideasUnderstandconceptualmeaning cause result purpose reason Readingskills J Heaton1988 8 Identifythemainideaandothersalientfeaturesinatext 9 Generalizeanddrawconclusions 10 Anticipateandpredictwhatwillcomenextinthetext 11 Understandinformationnotexplicitlystated12 Skimandscan generalmeaningandforspecificinformation 13 Readcritically 14 Adoptaflexibleapproachandvaryreadingstrategies Typesofreadingtest Reading studyreading closereading in depthreading SpeedreadingOpenquestion开放式问答题型Informationtransfer信息转换TrueorfalseMultiplechoice RequirementsformaterialsSelection QuantityLength passagesof100 afewhundredwordsSpeed TOEFL 120 130w mEPT 100w mMET 30w mSpeedreading 200w mQualityTypesofmaterial truetotheneedsoftestees variedLanguageandstyle difficultylevel authenticityContents newinformation nottootechnical informationofdifferentcategoriesandexpressedindifferentways Appearanceofinformationpointsshouldsuittypesofreading Qualityrequirementforreadingtestmaterial typesofmaterial Truetotheneedsoftestees Whatkindofmaterialsforreading skimming scanningthetesteeislikelytoreadinreallife TEM8 journalarticles popularscience languageandliterature biography socialsciences academicpapers newsreport referencebooks letters announcements etc dictionary encyclopedia index advertisements labels touristpamphlet timetablesTOEFL academic AmericanlifeVaried Differentkindsofmaterials notjustshortstories butmaterialsindifferenttopicareas 题材 andtexttypes 体裁 Qualityrequirementforreadingtestmaterial Languageandstyle Appropriatedifficultylevelauthenticity authenticsituation authentictexttype authenticstyle authenticlanguage avoidtext bookstylelanguage Qualityrequirementforreadingtestmaterial content Newinformation Informationfocused notformfocused NottootechnicalInformationofdifferentcategoriesandexpressedindifferentways thewholesetoftestitems e g partial global factual conceptual attitudinal functional relational explicit implicit localized dispersedAppearanceofinformationpointsshouldsuittypesofreading highlydenseinformationforintensivereading notverydenseinformation butathesisormainideaforskimming dispersed evenunrelatedinformationforscanning Thewritingofreadingcomprehensiontest PrinciplesTechniquesTechnicalrequirements Writingreadingcomprehensiontest Principles Testpointshouldaimatinformation notisolatedvocabularyorgrammarpoints Unknowninformationisthetestpoint thetesteeshouldgettheanswerfromthematerial notfromgeneralknowledge commonsense AskforinformationofdifferentcategoriesandlevelsCompletecoverageoftestmaterial donotleavethelastparagraph s untouched Questionsshouldbeindependentofeachother Writingreadingcomprehensiontest ba