What the English Entrance Test Showed

SVOBODA, Pavel, Mária ŠIKOLOVÁ and Eva SLOŽILOVÁ. What the English Entrance Test Showed. In LSP in Higher Education – Searching for Common Solutions. Brno: Univerzita obrany v Brně, 2007, 9 pp. ISBN 978-80-7231-260-3.

Basic information

Original name

What the English Entrance Test Showed

Name in Czech

Co ukázal přijímací test z angličtiny

Authors

SVOBODA, Pavel, Mária ŠIKOLOVÁ and Eva SLOŽILOVÁ

Edition

Brno, LSP in Higher Education – Searching for Common Solutions, 9 pp. 2007

Publisher

Univerzita obrany v Brně

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Other information

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISBN

978-80-7231-260-3

Keywords in English

testing; language skills; items; reliability

Tags

items, language skills, reliability, testing

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Abstract

V originále

The paper presents the characteristics of the English entrance test (University of Defence in Brno), the process of its design, moderation and pre-testing. All testers underwent a pre-testing training session whose purpose was to ensure consistent test conditions necessary for achieving high-test reliability. The attention is also paid to thorough test administration description and analysis. The test results have been analysed quantitatively in order to establish some test characteristics and correlations between the individual subtests as well as the correlations between test scores and some personal data of the students. Finally, the interpretation of test analysis is discussed together with main conclusions and recommendations for the future.