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Student Major Field and Text Content: Interactive Effects on Reading Comprehension in the Test of English as a Foreign Language.

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Hale, Gordon A. – Language Testing, 1988

Analysis of TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) scores for 32,467 graduate school applicants, all nonnative speakers of English, revealed that students in the two key major-field groups, humanities/social sciences and biological/physical sciences, performed better on reading passages related to their own groups than on other passages.…

Descriptors: Content Validity, English for Academic Purposes, Foreign Students, Graduate Students

Task and Ability Analysis as a Basis for Examining Content and Construct Comparability in Two EFL Proficiency Test Batteries.

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Bachman, Lyle F.; And Others – Language Testing, 1988

An exploratory analysis comparing two test batteries for English-as-a-Foreign-Language reading comprehension used a single framework of communicative language ability and test method facets to investigate construct validity. The framework's use in the content analysis of communicative language tests, and for the comparison of content across tests,…

Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Construct Validity, Content Analysis