大学英语考试中大量采用主观题目的有益尝试

A Meaningful Attempt; Adopting Large Percentage of Subjective Items in College English Tests

1996年,全国有8所高校作为试点单位开始尝试设计开发有各校自身特色的、不局限于四、六级考试模式的大学英语水平考试。清华大学作为试点单位之一,于1996年秋季学期尝试推出了清华大学英语水平考试(Ⅰ)(简称TEPT—1),这是针对已修完大学英语基础阶段课程的清华本科生而设计的考试。TEPT—1的最大特点是大量采用主观题目来综合考核学生实际运用语言的能力,这一考试在1999年得到国家教育部的认可。本文对TEPT—1的设计开发和实施情况进行了概括介绍,对其信度、效度进行了简略评估,并对2002年4月在清华部分教师和学生中进行的有关TEPT—1的问卷调查进行了分析。

In 1996, 8 universities nationwide were chosen as experimental units to construct their own college English tests, which can be different from the National College English Test Band 4 and Band 6. As one of the experimental units, Tsinghua University constructed its own English Proficiency Test (1)(abbr. TEPT-1)in Autumn, 1996, whose candidates are Tsinghua undergraduates who have completed the English study of Foundation Stage. The most obvious feature of TEPT-1 is to have a large percentage of subjective i...