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Acknowledgements
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Background of the research
1.1.1 TEM and TEM8
1.1.2 A brief introduction to meta-evaluation
1.1.3Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing and validity evidence
1.2 Purpose and significance of the study
1.3 Overall structure of the thesis
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 Meta-evaluation
2.1.1 The development of meta-evaluation
2.1.2 The criteria of meta-evaluation
2.1.3 The approaches of meta-evaluation
2.2 Validity
2.2.1 Definition of validity
2.2.2 Different types of validity
2.2.3 Validity evidences in Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing
Chapter Three Methodology
3.1 Design and planning
3.1.1 Evaluation purposes
3.1.2 Definition of criteria and dimensions
3.1.3 Collection of data
3.2 Desk review
3.2.1 Cleaning the data
3.2.2 Aggregation of the data
3.3 Analysis of the data
Chapter Four Results and Discussion
4.1 Summary of the collected data in five dimensions
4.1.1 Summary of data in terms of evidence based on test content
4.1.2 Summary of data in terms of evidence based on response processes
4.1.3 Summary of data in terms of evidence based on internal structure
4.1.4 Summary of data in terms of evidence based on relations to other variables
4.1.5 Summary of data in terms of evidence based on consequences of testing
4.2 Meta-evaluation on methods used in TEM8 studies
Chapter Five Conclusions
5.1 Main findings
5.2 Limitations
5.3 Implications
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