Technical b r Report - International Military Testing Association

The ECL test consists of 120 questions, 6Oi of which are on tape
and test the aural comprehension of ti,e student. 40% of the questions
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test reading comprehension. 40% of all objectives tested are taken
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from the ALC Elementary and 60% from the lnternediate texts. Items
are presented in the form of questions, s:atements, and dialog in the
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listening part of the test and in the form of incomplete statements,
underlined objectives, vord order, and complicated sen:enccs in the
written part. 75% of the questions consist of vocabulary and idioms
and 25% test the students’ abilities to select the proper structure.
All items are of the multiple choice type with four choices of answers,
only one of vhich is the correct ansbvr. The standards for. the
construction of items are extremely r&d.
The resulting product is the service trial edition of the
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screening test consisting of 12 forms of ECL tests a-f two form5 cf
each of the SET tests*
Validation of the ECL and SET tests are accomplished by pretesting
the service trial cditian k-fth the forrign students at the various
technical school::. Since the students at the technical schools are
all in the upper quadrant of language Iproficiency,
the ECL tests are
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pretested also among students in the cower quadrant at overseas schools.
The number of cases used for experimental testinS depends .u,>on
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the type of statistical analysis re&ircd. For conuuL:ing item _
anal,s&, at least 100 cases were used. Fcr computing correlation or
for norming, at least 300 cases were obtained.
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