Andy, Andy (2015) IELTS SPEAKING TEST: REVIEW, LIMITATION, STANDARDISATION AND REVISION TO ENSURE VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY. 62nd TEFLIN Procedings, 62 (1). pp. 231-238. ISSN 978-602-2940-66-1
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Abstract
IELTS is high stakes and gate keeping test for international students to participate at institutions and universities in English speaking countries. Considering its big impact to the future of test-takers (the students) as well as fulfilling the demand of language proficiency to succeed in the study at universities, and to understand better the need of different stakeholders. Therefore, ongoing research for development, revision, and also evolution have been done by the British Council, IDP: IELTS Australia and Cambridge English Language Assessment (jointly are the owners of IELTS) in order to address the problem, limitation and disadvantages, moreover mainly to assure its validity, reliability and consistency in doing the assessment, particularly of IELTS speaking test. This paper illustrates the review, limitation, standardization and revision. In terms of review, Brown and Hudson (2002, p.72) suggest that the disadvantages of performance test are “difficult to create; take considerable time to administer; may result in increased costs; causes logistical problems; creates reliability and validity problems; increase the risk of security breaches”. For the limitation, verbal interview has subjective interpretation and also factor of gender of raters and test-takers that influence the scoring procedure. To maintain scoring consistency and steadiness, standardisation of test management is done through training, retraining, certification, monitoring, multiply rated, and video-rating. In 2001, interview format and criteria underwent revision to ascertain IELTS speaking test remains fair and unbiased. This paper tries to enlighten necessary consideration to speaking assessment developers to successfully provide evidence of representativeness of the skills and knowledge required. Keywords: IELTS speaking test, review, limitation, standardisation, revision, validity, reliability, speaking assessment developers.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Bahasa dan Budaya |
| Divisions: | Fakultas Ilmu Pendidikan > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris |
| Depositing User: | Andy Andy |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Sep 2016 03:31 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Sep 2016 03:31 |
| URI: | http://repository.unikama.ac.id/id/eprint/635 |
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