出版社：Association for the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language in Indonesia (TEFLIN)
摘要：This paper describes the development of a diagnostic test of mrrltiple choice reading comprehension as an initiai stage in developing teaching rnaterials for medical students learning English. sample te"ts were collected from all tlte departments in the faculty. selection of relevant texts involved the palticipation of some subject lecturers. sixty one items were developed from fifteen texts to be reduced to forty items after pilot testing. Face validity was improved. The main trial was carried out to twerty nine students and item analysis was carried out. The test showed low level of concunent validity and the internal consistency showed a moderate level of reliability. The iow level of concunent validis was suspected to result from the test being too difficult for the testees as the item analysis had revealed.
关键词：diagnostic test; reading comprehension; medical school
