Technical b r Report - International Military Testing Association

A great amount of effort is being expended in the Javelopment
of the ECL screening tests in order to obtain the highest reliability
and validity for each form of the tests. For test reliability, both
the internal item consistency and the alternate-form reliability are
carefully checked. For test validity, we check the content validity,
construct validity, and predictive validity. The reliability index
and the construct validity coefficient of each of the different forms
have been kept above .90. The coefficients of the predictive validity
have shown above .65. X11 of these cutoffs are considered high
st .mdards in test validation. For an example of statistical data,
please refer to handout, Table 1.
We have also correlated the ECL tests against the Test of English
As X Foreign Language (TOEFL) tests, the University of Michigan
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language proficiency tests, and the American University language tests.
Pretesting has also been conducted at San Francisco State College, the
University of Texas, Tesas AfJl, and the University of Minnesota. The
,results were around .80, indicating a high correlation with their
criterion tests of English proficiency.
The SET tests do net use converted standard scores as do the ECL
tests. They arc designed to use percentage scores with pass/fail
cutoff scores. For the 6500, 6700, 6900, 7200, and 7400 SET tests, we
have used minus one standard deviation as the cutoff point since these ’
are proficiency type tests.