some comments on college english test (c.doc

Some Comments on College English Test (CET) band


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Abstract: This paper summarize the achievements and existing problems of CET-4, and try to evaluate the reliability and validity of CET by the statistical data of CET-4 in Jun, 2001 of a certain college. The results show that the Test-retest reliability r=0.673, and Internal Consistency reliability r=0.732, α=0.625. A suggestion was given to add Spoken English Test (SET) in CET, and the Predictive validity was discussed.

Key words: College English Test, reliability, validity, comments

Contents：

1. Topic and structure
2. Literature review
2.1 The Achievements of CET
2.2 The existing problems of CET
2.3 Ourselves See CET
3. Methodology
3.1 Reliability considerations
3.2 Validity considerations
3.3 The relationship between reliability and validity
4 Some comments on CET-4
4.1 The purpose of CET-4
4.2 The Content of CET-4
4.2.1 Listening comprehension test
4.2.2 Reading comprehension test
4.2.3 Writing test
4.3 Scoring method
4.4 The reliability consideration
4.4.1 Score distributing
4.4.2 Test-retest reliability
4.4.3 Internal Consistency reliability
4.5 The validity consideration of CET-4
4.5.1 Predictive validity
4.5.2 Face validity
4.5.3 Content validity
5 Discussions
5.1 The Importance of the Reliability and Validity of the CET
5.3 Toothpaste and pie
5.4 Accommodating the communicative
5.5 Predictive validity of Spoken English Tests
6 conclusions
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