ACTFL星际网赌登录的质量控制

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质量控制概述

ACTFL星际网赌登录的质量是重中之重. It’s what sets ACTFL assessments apart and ensures that our tests remain the gold standard for assessing proficiency and performance. ACTFL星际网赌登录计划的重点是:

  • 创建符合测试规范的高质量星际网赌登录,
  • 按照严格的迭代过程开发测试项/提示, 坚持测试开发的最佳实践和指导方针,
  • 在整个测试开发过程中保持一致性和严谨性,
  • 审查星际网赌登录内容的公平性、偏倚性和敏感性;
  • Piloting new test prompts and field-testing new assessments to determine the extent to which they measure or elicit language as they are intended to do,
  • Ensuring that tesst remains valid and reliable throughout the duration of their use,
  • 定期维护和更新测试内容
  • 监视用于管理和安全性的测试策略.

ACTFL’s standards for establishing and maintaining high-quality ACTFL assessments is rigorous, ongoing, 并始终取得最高质量的语言星际网赌登录成绩. Quality Control and Quality Assurance measures are integrated into every step of ACTFL processes-- from test development, 招聘测试员和评级员, certification, and calibration, to test review, item performance, and maintenance.

ACTFL星际网赌登录的质量是一个优先事项. ACTFL星际网赌登录计划的重点是:

  • 创建满足测试规范的高质量星际网赌登录
  • 按照严格的迭代过程开发测试项/提示, 坚持测试开发的最佳实践和指导方针
  • 在整个测试开发过程中保持一致性和严谨性
  • 审查星际网赌登录内容的公平性,偏见, & sensitivity
  • Piloting new test prompts and field test new assessments to determine that they measure or elicit language as they are intended to do
  • Ensuring that the test remains valid and reliable throughout the duration of its use
  • 维护和刷新测试内容
  • 监视用于管理和安全性的测试策略

ACTFL’s standards for establishing and maintaining high-quality ACTFL assessments is rigorous, ongoing, 并始终取得最高质量的语言星际网赌登录成绩. Quality Control and Quality Assurance measures are integrated into every step of ACTFL processes-- from test development, 招聘测试员和评级员, certification, 并对测试进行评审和维护.

Test Development

ACTFL assessments are developed according to a framework that addresses test design, its intended use, test takers, 以及对考试成绩的解释. ACTFL test development processes adhere to professional guidelines and best practices for test development such as the 教育与心理测试标准(2014) 以及现行的技术和专业标准等 F2889 - 11(2020),星际网赌登录语言能力的标准做法.

ACTFL的测试开发工作流程是密集的, multi-stage, multi-draft, and iterative process to ensure that the test content adheres to the test specifications.

ACTFL的测试开发过程包括:

  • Recruiting qualified individuals for test development teams: item/prompt writers, prompt selectors, reviewers, 以及目标语言专家
  • 为团队成员提供测试开发研讨会
  • 维护标准化的测试开发和审查指南
  • 监控和支持在线测试开发工作流程
  • 确保公平,避免偏见 & sensitivity reviews
  • Pilot testing new item types and field testing new assessments to determine that they measure or elicit language as they are intended to do.

质量控制区

Quality Control (QC) of ACTFL assessments occurs throughout the lifetime of an assessment. ACTFL assessments are monitored throughout the duration of their use to ensure consistent evaluation and measurement of examinee performance and to ensure that the assessments continue to align with the validity and reliability of the original assessments. 质量控制主要集中在以下方面:

  • 监测话题的频率和及时曝光
  • 定期回顾项目表现
  • 进行可靠性和有效性研究
  • 需要定期进行独立的心理测量星际网赌登录
  • 回顾考生的经历和反馈
  • 遵循测试维护和恢复计划
  • 实现安全漏洞协议和审查
  • Collaborating with the ACTFL Quality Assurance Program to coordinate psychometric reviews of ACTFL assessments

Assessment Policies

为了提供星际网赌登录结果公平和有效的测量, ACTFL星际网赌登录政策是测试开发的指导方针, administration, scoring, 维持和更新ACTFL星际网赌登录. These policies ensure that the assessments elicit and measure what they are intended to measure, 提供公平和公正的星际网赌登录机会, 维护考生的个人信息和分数, and maintain the integrity of the proficiency-based nature of ACTFL assessments.

住宿政策

ACTFL is strongly committed to facilitating equal access to its assessments and accommodations to all individuals seeking to assess world language abilities. To this end, ACTFL assessments are available with accommodations that are appropriate for each candidate’s conditions and needs. ACTFL’s 住宿政策 serves as guidance to Language Testing International (LTI), ACTFL星际网赌登录的独家许可人.

星际网赌登录及诚信政策

考生需要审查考生诚信政策, 在进行ACTFL星际网赌登录之前. ACTFL proficiency-based assessments are designed to evaluate spontaneous, unrehearsed language. Any responses provided by the test taker are assessed by certified ACTFL raters with that in mind; likewise, the machine-scored assessments account for this in the respective scoring algorithms. ACTFL’s 星际网赌登录及诚信政策 outlines test taker actions that undermine the intended use of ACTFL’s assessments of language proficiency and outlines the consequences of such actions.

记录保留和考生保密政策

Test taker confidentiality and secure record retention is a priority for the ACTFL Assessment Program. Based on ACTFL’s 记录保留和考生保密政策 serves as guidance for Language Testing International (LTI), ACTFL的独家授权人, 为他们的管理和ACTFL星际网赌登录评分.

Re-Test Policy

因为ACTFL星际网赌登录是基于熟练程度的, language use and language learning over time are integral factors for the progression of proficiency. As such, ACTFL does not generally permit test takers to retake an assessment within 90 days of a test administration. In addition, 熟悉星际网赌登录的内容会产生测试效果, which also, 影响熟练程度的星际网赌登录. 为了提供一个准确的测量语言能力, an extended time period must pass before two successive administrations of an assessment. ACTFL’s Re-Test Policy provides information about re-testing and exceptions to the Re-Test Policy.

测试维护和刷新策略

ACTFL’s 测试维护和刷新策略 outlines the maintenance and refresh plans to ensure that the test remains valid and reliable throughout the duration of its use. Maintenance documents include the specifications for evaluation of test performance and review processes for item performance and tester/rater certification and calibration. Refreshment documents include the process and metrics for refreshing test content. 保留有效性和可靠性证据文件, and retention goes as far back as the original validity and reliability review.

测试安全策略

为了保护考试的完整性,考试安全是ACTFL的重中之重, validity, 以及星际网赌登录的内容. ACTFL’s 测试安全策略 serves as guidance to Language Testing International (LTI), ACTFL星际网赌登录的独家许可人, 的保安措施,以保障ACTFL的星际网赌登录. 以防出现安全漏洞, the exposed prompt(s) or item(s) are pulled from the assessment and new items.