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Acknowledgements
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Research background and significance
1.2 Structure of the thesis
Chapter Two Theoretical Concerns in Language Test Usefulness
2.1 History of language testing
2.1.1 Pre-scientific stage
2.1.2 Psychometric-structuralist stage
2.1.3 Psycholingnistic-sociolinguistic stage
2.1.4 Communicative pragmatic stage
2.2Types of test
2.2.1Proficiency, achievement, placements and diagnostic tests
2.2.2 Direct and indirect test
2.2.3 Discrete-point and integrative tests
2.2.4 Objective and subjective test
2.2.5 Norm-referenced and criterion-referenced tests
2.3 Test usefulness
2.3.1 Validity
2.3.2Reliability
2.3.3 Authenticity, interactiveness, impact, and practicality
2.3.4 Relationships between reliability and validity
2.4 Summary
Chapter Three Theoretical Framework of Assessing Reading
3.1 Definition of reading and reading comprehension
3.2 Reading assessment
3.3 Some key considerations when constructing a reading test
3.3.1 The nature of the reading skills
3.3.2 Test content
3.3.3 Questions types
3.4 Summary
Chapter Four Validation Study
4.1Research design
4.1.1Research questions of the study
4.1.2 Validation instrument
4.1.3 Subjects
4.1.4 Procedure
4.2Content validation
4.2.1 Description of the ACEEE (upgrade from junior college to university)
4.2.2 Description of reading comprehension items of the ACEEE (upgrade from junior college to university)
4.2.3 The description of the syllabus
4.2.4 The analysis of the test paper
4.2.5 The result of content validity
4.3 Construct validation
4.3.1 Reading abilities required for the test
4.3.2 Analysis of reading skills in test tasks
4.3.3 Analysis of 2005 reading comprehension section of the 2005 test
4.3.4 The result of construct validity
4.4 Concurrent validation
4.5 Face validation and consequential validation
4.5.1Description of the questionnaire
4.5.2 The result of the questionnaire
4.5.3 The result of face validity
4.5.4 The result of consequential validity (washback)
4.5.5 Relevance of content validity
Chapter Five Conclusion and Recommendations
5.1 Conclusion
5.1.1 Reliability of reading comprehension of ACEEE
5.1.2 Validity of the reading comprehension of ACEEE
5.1.3 Consequential validity of the reading comprehension of ACEEE
5.2 Recommendations for development of the test
5.3 Summary
Bibliography
Appendix
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