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CAA Validation in NIECELT and some Pedagogical Issues in Question Design and Content of an Innovative Cloze
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posted on 2006-05-23, 17:24 authored by Anthony Seow, Chew Lee Chin, Luo GuanzhongThe National Institute of Education (NIE) in Singapore has developed a
comprehensive testing software known as “NIE Computerised English Language
Test” or, simply, NIECELT, that is capable of administering a test or a number of
tests to any specified number of examinees at the same time or at different times.
Inherent in NIECELT are a number of interactive test questions which allow the
examinees to craft some of their answers in response to a set of questions that
assess the examinees’ proficiency in language structure, grammar, vocabulary,
reading-comprehension and the use of language in context.
An issue challenging NIECELT as a computer-assisted assessment tool pertains to
the defensibility of inferences made from the obtained test scores. Related empirical
questions include: 1) How well does performance on NIECELT reflect examinees’
language proficiency compared to that measured by the English Language GCE ‘O’
level examination? 2) What are the relationships among the different test questions
in NIECELT presented to examinees?
This paper attempts to provide evidences of both the internal and external structures
of NIECELT. Implications of the findings are discussed in terms of the pedagogical
issues in question design and content of one interactive question type – a modified
cloze procedure that tests essentially language in context. The innovation in question
type in the cloze will also be clarified.
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SEOW, CHIN and GUANZHONG, 2001. CAA Validation in NIECELT and some Pedagogical Issues in Question Design and Content of an Innovative Cloze. IN: Proceedings of the 5th CAA Conference, Loughborough: Loughborough UniversityPublisher
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This is a conference paper.Language
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