英文摘要 |
The purpose of this study was to develop a test for assessing elementary and junior high school students' abilities to understand spoken Chinese. The test which was designed had 3 versions for G3-4, G5-6 and G7-9 students, and the test items were heard by test-takers on a CD player. 1290 G3-6 students and 905 G7-9 students were sampled from three major geographical regions in Taiwan, by way of establishing the norm; a norm for Taiwan's eastern region was established in order to account for the specific assessment needs of that region. The procedures for item construction and for extablishing norms, reliability and validity are reported here. The newly-desinged test was found to have an acceptable degree of reliability, with internal consistency coefficients above .7. The test-retest reliability coefficients ranged between .66 and .80, and a good fit was found between the validity evidance, past research findings and the Simple View of Reading. Comparing this spoken language test with formal language comprehention tests, the correlation coefficients were within .49 to .69. Thus it was found that these two kinds of language comprehention tests were directly correlated, but that they could offer different information when used for Chinese spoken language or reading assessments. |