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1、TheAnalysisofaCollegeEnglishPlacementTest Abstract：Throughastudyofthe2012placementtestinHanshanNormalUniversityandtheperformanceofthetesttakers,teacherscanfindoutthetraitsofthelanguagecompetenceofthetesttakersandtobuildupageneraldescriptionoftheirEnglishproficienc
2、ylevels.Moreover,byassessingthereliabilityandvalidityofthetestpaper,teacherscanmakesureoftheextenttowhichtheycanusethetestscoresintheplacementdecisionmaking. Keywords：placementtest;reliability;validity 中图分类号：H319文献标识码：A文章编号：1672-1578（2013)09-0003-03 1PlacementTe
3、standTraitsofcompetence “Placementtests,astheirnamesuggests,areintendedtoprovideinformationwhichwillhelptoplacestudentsatthestage(orinthepart)oftheteachingprogrammemostappropriatetotheirabilities.”(Hughes14)Foritisbelievedthatitwillbebeneficialtoteachstudentsaccor
4、dingtotheiraptitude,thistestisdesignedtoassessthefreshmen’sEnglishproficiencylevelssoastoassignthestudentstoclassesatdifferentlevelsaccordingtothestudents’aptitude.Thetestcompositionisasfollows: Table1 Inaddition,thisisacompletelyobjectivetestofthemultiple-choice
5、type,eachitemwithfouralternatives,so“thetypeofexpectedresponseiswhatPopham(1987)referstoasthe‘selected’response”(Bachman129).Inthisstudy,agroupof100testtakers’scoresareusedassamples. Table2isageneraldescriptionofthese25testtakers’performanceinthetest. Table2. Am
6、ongthe100testtakers,fourfifthsgettheirscoresabove60,whileonefifthgettheirscoresbelow60,withanaveragescoreof67.28.AccordingtothistestresultinTable2,thetesttakersdoquitewellinlisteningcomprehension,readingcomprehension,andclose,althoughtheirmasteryofvocabularyandknow
7、ledgeofgrammarstructurearenotsogood.Nevertheless,theEnglishlevelofthesefreshmenisgenerallysatisfactory. PartⅠislisteningcomprehensioncomposedoftwosections:20shortconversationsand6shortpassages.Somespecifictestitemsanditemdataarestudiedbelowtorevealthetraitsofthete
8、sttakers’listeningcompetence.Theindexofdifficultyofthispartisabout0.63,whiletheindexofdiscriminationisabout0.16.AccordingtoTable2,thedifficultyof
