Analysis on Fairness of CET-4 Passage Reading Based on the Validity

摘要

Test fairness is a compulsory factor besides the validity and reliability in English language testing. The major objective of this paper, with combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis, is a preliminary effort to research the fairness of passage of CET-4 based on the validity. And the tokens of 2014 to 2018 in three sets of passage reading in each examination are abstracted to analyze the fairness. Accordingly, some implications are drawn for writing and instructors entailed in writing.