THE CONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF DPU-COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH PROFICIENCY TEST (DPU-CEPT)
Keywords:
Construction and Development, Proficiency Test, Communictive EnglishAbstract
The DPU-Communicative English Proficiency Test (DPU- CEPT) has been constructed and developed for teaching and learning English at a university level. The DPU-CEPT was constructed to be analogous to the standardized Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) developed by the Educational Testing Service (ETS). The DPU-CEPT will be equated with TOEIC for an easier score interpretation. The DPU-CEPT shows an acceptable internal consistency reliability (KR-20=.78). The strong correlations between the DPU-CEPT and TOEIC (r=.79) show evidence of construct validity. Moreover, the DPU-CEPT also correlates with current GPA (r=.71) and GPAX (r=.57), and those scores provide the evidence of concurrent validity. With satisfactorily psychometric properties, the DPU-CEPT can be applied to learning and teaching English as a Second Language.
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