コミュニケーション能力テストにおけるリーディングセクションの妥当性検証

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Along with the spread of communicative language teaching, there has been growing interest in the measurement of EFL learners' communicative ability. This study empirically examines the validity of five communicative tests, and investigates whether reading sections designed to measure skimming, scanning, and global comprehension have high correlations with sections expected to measure the same sub-skills (the external aspect of validity), and how strongly the items in the same section are associated with each other (the structural aspect of validity). Results showed that (a) correlations among the reading sections measuring the same sub-skills were mostly moderate to high, suggesting relatively positive evidence of external validity, and (b) through cluster analysis, the scanning skill was identifiable in some test areas whereas skimming and global comprehension skills were not, implying that the structural aspect of validity was partially supported.
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