现代语言测试的信度和效度的分析

The Analysis on Reliablility and Validity of Language Testing

信度和效度是语言测试的两个极其重要的评价标准。信度指的是考试结果的可靠性,效度是指考试达到预定目的的程度。从宏观角度进行分析,并对现代语言测试中效度和信度的取向进行了阐述。

Reliability and validity are two important criteria for evaluation in language testing. Reliability means the quality of being reliable an consistency. Validity means the quality of being valid or realization of the purposes. The article discusses the definitions and the relation between the two criteria from the macro angle. It also clarifies the development of the the two criteria in language testing.