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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 2 / 2017  
         
  Article:   DEVELOPING AN ANALYSIS GRID FOR B1/ B2 READING TASKS AND ITEMS.

Authors:  ADRIANA TODEA.
 
       
         
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2017.2.12

Published Online: 2017-06-15
Published Print: 2017-06-30

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Developing an Analysis Grid for B1/ B2 Reading Tasks and Items. A test analysis grid is a useful tool in the process of test design/ writing and test validation as its development can help both set up guidelines for test writers and provide a means of checking whether these standards are met, not only by test tasks globally, but by test items individually. Assessing reading abilities in a foreign language on CEFR standards requires that test analysis grids adapt to CEFR descriptors. The question is whether the CEFR model of language proficiency may prove particularly successful at building quantifiable scales of selected assessment criteria that can be used to work out scores of test tasks, and test items individually, which can then translate into CEFR levels. The purpose of this research is putting in place an effective algorithm to measure, on the CEFR scale, the various input text characteristics, item characteristics, and problem-solving strategies of reading test tasks in interaction. The present paper focuses specifically on the development of a test analysis grid that can provide an accurate tool to measure/ validate B1 and B2 reading test tasks and items of the Romanian language tests developed at the Babeş-Bolyai University by the Romanian Language, Culture and Civilization Department.

Key words: test design, test validation, input text, rubric, task, item, expected response, reading strategies, problem-solving strategies.

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