Assessing Test-Taking Strategies of IELTS Test-Takers: Development and Validation of an IELTS Test-Taking Strategy Questionnaire

  • سال انتشار: 1401
  • محل انتشار: مجله بین المللی آزمون سازی زبان، دوره: 12، شماره: 1
  • کد COI اختصاصی: JR_IJLT-12-1_003
  • زبان مقاله: انگلیسی
  • تعداد مشاهده: 152
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نویسندگان

Masoomeh Estaji

Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran.

Zahra Banitalebi

Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran.

چکیده

The measurement of test-taking strategies and practices, mostly studied through qualitative methods, has been an important aspect of language testing and assessment research. The current study examines the test-taking strategies of International English Language Testing System (IELTS) test-takers and reports the process of designing and validating an IELTS test-taking strategy questionnaire. To achieve this aim, a questionnaire with ۶۲ items was developed and piloted on ۵۳۴ IELTS test-takers. To ensure its validity, the questionnaire results were analyzed through Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analyses (EFA and CFA). The final ۴۹-item instrument with eight factors, “test-management (TM)” and “test-wiseness (TW)” strategies in each skill, had adequate psychometric properties. The findings revealed positive correlations between TM and TW strategies, representing strong correlations between Reading TM and Listening TM, Reading TW and Listening TW, and Listening TM and Speaking TM. The developed questionnaire can serve as a diagnostic tool to monitor test-takers’ performance and strategies, mainly in high-stakes tests like IELTS.

کلیدواژه ها

Factor analysis, questionnaire design, Test-management strategy, Test-wiseness strategy, Validation

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