Validating Parallel Language Tests investigates the
parallelness of
the school level two equivalent national reading
tests. The study is
based on the test performance of the test-takers and
their
questionnaire responses with regard to the tests. It
also draws on
the responses of the test-takers teachers and the
experts
judgments on the two tests. The study uses the
classical test theory
in order to analyse the tests scores. The experts
judgments are
analysed to examine the construct (content) validity
of the tests.
Also, the test task characteristics (using Bachman
and Palmers
[1996]...