Evaluation of a Reading Achievement Test

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1、EvaluationofaReadingAchievementTestI.IntroductionThereportisbasedonanachievementtestpapertakenbyXinghuacollegeofNingxiaUniversity..ThepurposeofthetestistocheckwhetherthestudentshavereachedtheteachingobjectivesaccordingtothenewstandardEnglishforChina’scollegestudentswhichareedited

2、byNingxiaUniversityPress.Altogether26studentstookthetestandtheymustfinishthetestintwohours.Allthepapersaremarkedbyteachers.II.EvaluationontheTotallevel.Onthewhole,thepapercoverstwotypesoftests---objectiveitemsandsubjectiveitems,ofwhichobjectiveitemscover70marksandsubjectiveitemsc

3、over30marks.Thefullmarksare100.2.1TheStructureAndContentofthePaperThepaperisdesignedaccordingtothenewstandardinXinghuacollegewhichhasbeenputintopracticein2005.Itseemsthatthissetofpaperfollowsthemodeofthetraditionalpapersinceitismadeupoffourparts:Reading,Translation,Fillintheblank

4、s,Grammarandwriting.Butinfactit’sverydifferentfromtheoldone.Thedifferencesliesinthefollowingaspects:1)Inthereadingsection,thefourpassagesrequirethetesteeestoansweraccordingtotheunderstanding;2)thedesigneromittedthefillintheblankitemswhichhavebeenusedformanyyears;3)thetestees’gram

5、marknowledgeistestedthroughfillingtheblanksinapassage;4)thenewiteminformationmatchisaddedtoreadingcomprehension;5)thetraditionalitemerrorscorrectioninapassageisomitted;6)thewritingsectionconsistsofonepart---basicwriting,whichaskstheparticipantsmustwriteapassageofabout150wordsrela

6、tedtothematerial.Thedetailedinformationaboutthepapercanbeseeninthefollowingtables.Table1.theproportionofthestructureandcontent阅读理解完形填空语法词汇翻译写作总分NValid262626262626Missing000000Mean27.07697.269211.21156.61545.730857.9038Median28.00007.000011.75006.50007.500058.0000Mode22.00(a)5.003

7、.00(a)6.00(a)8.0027.00(a)Std.Deviation6.279642.836305.342613.057153.5503014.77770Skewness-.359.969-.177-.646-.794-.333Std.ErrorofSkewness.456.456.456.456.456.456Range24.0011.0017.5010.009.0057.00Accordingtotable1,wecanseethatthepaperfocusesontestingtheparticipants’languagecompete

8、nceinsteadoflanguageknowledge.Thismeetst