摘要：The purpose of the present study was to investigate the correlation between teacher- made test and Payam-e-Nour (PNU) final examination for the aural course of the translation students together with a detailed analysis of the PNU final written test items in terms of their item facility, choice distribution, item discrimination, and estimating validity and reliability of the total final written test. Sixty English majors from PNU university of Rasht took part in this study. The result of Pearson product-moment correlation showed that there was a strong positive correlation between oral teacher- made test scores and PNU written test scores (r = 0.709). Moreover, Cronbach alpha statistic estimated for the test showed an acceptable reliability index of 0.78. The results of item analysis of the PNU written test items revealed that the written test definitely needed revision. The findings also revealed that PNU written test lacks content validity specially in terms of the number of the items, unequal distribution of the items from two books and throughout the units, the example items, representative tasks, representative sample, the importance or weight given to certain elements, and learning level of the testees. The finding of the study implied close consideration of test content and test specification having the objectives of the course in mind in the process of test making by test developers.
其他摘要：The purpose of the present study was to investigate the correlation between teacher- made test and Payam-e-Nour (PNU) final examination for the aural course of the translation students together with a detailed analysis of the PNU final written test items in terms of their item facility, choice distribution, item discrimination, and estimating validity and reliability of the total final written test. Sixty English majors from PNU university of Rasht took part in this study. The result of Pearson product-moment correlation showed that there was a strong positive correlation between oral teacher- made test scores and PNU written test scores (r = 0.709). Moreover, Cronbach alpha statistic estimated for the test showed an acceptable reliability index of 0.78. The results of item analysis of the PNU written test items revealed that the written test definitely needed revision. The findings also revealed that PNU written test lacks content validity specially in terms of the number of the items, unequal distribution of the items from two books and throughout the units, the example items, representative tasks, representative sample, the importance or weight given to certain elements, and learning level of the testees. The finding of the study implied close consideration of test content and test specification having the objectives of the course in mind in the process of test making by test developers.
关键词：English conversation test;BA English translation students;PNU
