Transcription of Test Description and Validation Summary - Pearson
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Versant 4 Skills Essential Test Test Description and Validation Summary Table of Contents 1. Introduction .. 2. 2. Test Description .. 2. Test Design .. 2. Test Administration .. 2. Test Format .. 3. Number of Items .. 7. Test Construct .. 7. Facility in Spoken and Written English .. 7. The Role of Memory .. 10. Context Independence .. 10. 3. Content Design and Development .. 11. Vocabulary Selection .. 11. Item Development .. 11. Item Prompt Recording .. 12. Voice 12. Recording Review .. 12. 4. Score Reporting .. 13. Scores and Weights .. 13. Score Use .. 15. 5. Validation .. 15. Validity Study 16. Internal Validity .. 16. Descriptive Statistics .. 16. Standard Error of 16. Test 17. Dimensionality: Correlations Among Skill Scores .. 17. Machine Accuracy .. 18. Differentiation Among Known Populations .. 18. Linking to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages .. 19. 6. Conclusions.
Completion, Dictation, and Passage Reconstruction. These tasks provide multiple, fully independent measures that underlie facility in spoken and written English, including pronunciation, fluency, sentence construction and comprehension, passive and active vocabulary use, listening skill, and appropriateness and accuracy of writing.
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