Nature et validité du test de classement de l’institut des langues secondes
Alysse Weinberg · Canadian Modern Language Review/ La Revue canadienne des langues vivantes · 1995
In this article the author evaluates the validity of the placement test used to place students in the comprehensioti-based courses offered by the Second Language Institute of the University of Ottawa. The test is described in the context of the target student population and the comprehension-based collrses. Different factors of evaluating the concurrent and predictive validity were considered. Professors were surveyed to see if they agreed with the assignment of students as made by the placement test. Students’ final marks and their marks on the placement test were mapped and analysed with respect to the cut-off points of the placement test and the professors’ evaluation. Spreadsheet-based statistical methods for evaluating test validity are demonstrated.