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Chapter One Introduction
1.1 The Pedagogical Significance of Diagnostic Tests
1.2 The Current English Diagnostic Testing for middle school students
1.3 Purpose of the Thesis
1.4 Organization of the Thesis
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 The Evolution of Language Testing
2.2 Approaches to Language Testing
2.3 Classification of Testing Methods
2.4 Principles of the Test Construction
2.5 Classical Test Theory and Item Response Theory
Chapter Three Research Design
3.1 Purpose of the Research
3.2Research Instruments
3.2.1 The Sixth Diagnostic Test Administered on November/03/2008
3.2.2 Questionnaire Design
3.3.3 Interview Survey
Chapter Four Analysis of the Research Results
4.1 The Operational Steps of the Sixth Diagnostic Test Construction
4.2 The Item analysis
4.3 Analysis of Reliability
4.4 validity analysis
4.5 Practicality
Chapter Five Conclusion
5.1 Summary of the Study
5.2 Contributions and Limitations of the Research
Bibliography
Appendix
Acknowledgements