An empirical investigation of the process of writing Academic Reading test items for the international English Language Testing System

Anthony Green; Roger Hawkey

An empirical investigation of the process of writing Academic Reading test items for the international English Language Testing System

Anthony Green
, Roger Hawkey

Centre for Research in English Language Learning & Assessment (CRELLA)

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The paper describes a study of reading test text selection, item writing and editing processes, with particular reference to these areas of test production for the IELTS Academic Reading test. Based on retrospective reports and direct observation, the report compares how trained and untrained item writers select and edit reading texts to make them suitable for a task-based test of reading and how they generate the accompanying items. Both individual and collective test editing processes are investigated.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IELTS Collected Papers 2: Research in reading and listening assessment
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
ISBN (Print)	9781107602649
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2012

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