IELTS Speaking Test: Review, Limitation, Standardisation and Revision to Ensure Validity and Reliability  

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Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 62st TEFLIN International Conference: Teaching and Assessing L2 Learners in the 21st Century, Denpasar, 14-16th September 2015, Book 3, page 250-258.
Topik: IELTS speaking test; review; limitation standardisation; revision; validity; reliability; speaking assessment developers.
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IELTSis high stakes and gate keeping test for international students to participate at institutions and universities in English speaking countries. Considering its big impact to the future of test-takers (the students) as well as fulfilling the demand of language proficiency to succeed in the study at universities, and to understand better the need of different stakeholders.Therefore, ongoing research for development, revision, and also evolution have been done by the British Council, IDP: IELTS Australia and Cambridge English Language Assessment (jointly are the owners of IELTS) in order to address the problem, limitation and disadvantages, moreover mainly to assure its validity, reliability and consistency in doing the assessment, particularly of IELTS speaking test.This paper illustrates the review, limitation, standardization and revision. In terms of review, Brown and Hudson (2002, p.72) suggest that the disadvantages of performancetest are “difficult to create; take considerable timeto administer; may result in increasedcosts; causes logistical problems; creates reliabilityand validity problems; increase therisk of security breaches”. For the limitation, verbal interview has subjective interpretation and also factor of gender of raters and test-takers that influence the scoring procedure. To maintain scoring consistency and steadiness, standardisation of test management is done through training, retraining, certification, monitoring, multiply rated, and video-rating. In 2001, interview format and criteria underwent revision to ascertainIELTS speaking test remains fair and unbiased. This paper tries to enlighten necessary consideration to speaking assessment developers to successfully provide evidence of representativeness of the skills and knowledge required.

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