信任考试:从分数使用者的角度看语言考试在专业注册和技术移民中的作用

IF 0.1 Q4 LINGUISTICS Studies in Language Assessment Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.58379/makh4553
Susy Macqueen, John Pill, U. Knoch
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英语能力是决定每年成千上万的澳大利亚技术移民申请者生活机会的一个决定性因素。本文的重点是在决策中使用英语语言测试的专业团体的观点。采用解释性的方法,我们探索这些组织的政策制定者(作为分数使用者)对测试标准(cut-scores)的含义,以便我们能够更好地理解测试分数在移民政策中的用途。我们观察到,有关使用考试成绩的政策叙述描述了管理大量申请人的需要,确保高风险专业沟通的英语熟练程度,提供与任何专业能力评估分开的客观评估,并保持与其他机构标准的一致性。这些观点与其他相关信息结合在一起,特别是从考试提供者那里获得的信息,他们是使用考试的解释社区的关键参与者。我们观察到,特定的测试及其标准变得可信,并在政策中根深蒂固,使用明显简单的分数符号学。同时,测试营销也培养了对测试的信任。这些趋势值得考试研究者、提供者和评分使用者的注意。
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Trust the test: Score-user perspectives on the roles of language tests in professional registration and skilled migration
English language proficiency is a deciding factor in the life opportunities of many thousands of applicants for Australian skilled migration every year. This paper focuses on the perspectives of professional bodies that use English language tests in their decisions. Taking an interpretative approach, we explore the meanings that policy makers from these organisations ascribe (as score users) to test standards (cut-scores) so that we can better understand the uses of test scores in migration policy. The policy narratives we observed around the use of test scores describe the need to manage large numbers of applicants, to assure a level of English proficiency for high-risk professional communications, to provide an objective assessment that is separate from any assessment of professional competence and to maintain consistency of standards with other bodies. These views are contextualised with other relevant information, particularly that available from test providers, who are key players in the test-using interpretive community. We observe that particular tests and their standards become trusted and entrenched in policy, using the apparently simple semiotics of scores. Concomitantly, trust in tests is nurtured by test marketing. These tendencies warrant attention from test researchers, providers and score users.
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