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An empirical investigation of the process of writing Academic Reading test items for the international English Language Testing System

dc.contributor.authorHawkey, Rogeren_GB
dc.contributor.authorGreen, Anthonyen_GB
dc.date.accessioned2012-08-13T09:38:17Z
dc.date.available2012-08-13T09:38:17Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationHawkey, R. and Green, A. (2012) An empirical investigation of the process of writing Academic Reading test items for the international English Language Testing System in Taylor, L. and Weir, C. J. (eds.) IELTS Collected Papers 2: Research in reading and listening assessment. Studies in Language Testing 34. Cambridge: Cambridge University Pressen_GB
dc.identifier.isbn9781107602649
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10547/238200
dc.description.abstractThe paper describes a study of reading test text selection, item writing and editing processes, with particular reference to these areas of test production for the IELTS Academic Reading test. Based on retrospective reports and direct observation, the report compares how trained and untrained item writers select and edit reading texts to make them suitable for a task-based test of reading and how they generate the accompanying items. Both individual and collective test editing processes are investigated.
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen_GB
dc.relation.ispartofseriesStudies in Language Testingen_GB
dc.relation.ispartofseries34en_GB
dc.relation.urlhttp://www.cambridge.org/gb/elt/catalogue/subject/project/item6639576/?site_locale=en_GBen_GB
dc.subjectreadingen_GB
dc.subjectlanguage assessmenten_GB
dc.subjectlanguage testingen_GB
dc.subjectlisteningen_GB
dc.titleAn empirical investigation of the process of writing Academic Reading test items for the international English Language Testing Systemen
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dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Bedfordshireen_GB
dc.identifier.journalStudies in Language Testingen_GB
html.description.abstractThe paper describes a study of reading test text selection, item writing and editing processes, with particular reference to these areas of test production for the IELTS Academic Reading test. Based on retrospective reports and direct observation, the report compares how trained and untrained item writers select and edit reading texts to make them suitable for a task-based test of reading and how they generate the accompanying items. Both individual and collective test editing processes are investigated.


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