CRITERION REFERENCED TETS OF COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE ABILTY

• To develop CR tests of language abilities, must be concern:

• To identify the essentials characteristics of such tests,
• To define theses characteristics in a way that is consistent with
considerations that must be made with respect to validity and
authenticity
ESSENTIALS CHARACTERISTICS OF COMMON METRIC
SCALES OF COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE ABILITY

ABSOLUTE SCALES OF MEASUREMENT

AN APPROACH TO THE DEFINITION OF CRITERION

REFERENCED SCALES OF LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
 •Judged social or esthetic quality of the performance
•Complexity or difficulty of the subject matter
basis for •Degree of proficiency with which complex skill are performed
scaling or •Prerequisite sequence for acquiring intelectual and psychomotor skills
ordering the •Location on a emperically defined latent trait
domain

• Stimulus properties of the domain and the sampling plan of

the test
Basis for • Verbal statements of stimuli and responses in domain
delineating • Diagnostics categories of performance
the behavior • Abtractions, traits, contrutcs
domain
COMMUNICATIVE
LANGUAGE ABILITY
PERSONAL
CHARACTERISTICS
RANDOM FACTORS

TEST METHODS
FACETS