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

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter Peer-review

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Abstract

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.

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter Peer-review

Original language

English

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/01/2012

Publication status

Published - 01/01/2012

Publisher

Cambridge University Press, United States, United Kingdom

ISBN (Print)

9781107602649

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/238200

Host publication title

IELTS Collected Papers 2: Research in reading and listening assessment

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