On the Disparity of Validity in Direct and Indirect Testing of English Writing

With the rapid development of science and technology, information technology and economic globalization, the rapid arrival of the basic education curriculum in the world undergoing profound changes. Targeted training and physical and mental development of the social trends of change. Basic English education in China since the 1990s began to develop rapidly. But lagging behind China in all aspects of personnel training mode, the concepts of education system, educational testing, content, methods and means of the comprehensive development of the young people serious impact and constraints. The current English test with teaching coordination and seriously lagging behind in teaching, teachers do not know enough of the English language test and for the implementation of the language test. How the first line of the English teachers training and development, how to design a language papers promote perfect English test. The evaluation criteria of the English language test, in addition to the viability of a project, the reliability and validity of the test. The teaching of English to their test can not be separated, but test whether the teaching is always a positive role in promoting teaching and the quality of the test to pass the test to ensure, to the reliability and validity, authenticity, interactivity and usability reached a high level, but also to a positive impact on teaching. The papers of the designers in the design papers ratings estimates, use, time, even before the test preparation and test Feedback should be clear. However, at this stage secondary school English test work there are many unsatisfactory problems, such as teachers lack professional knowledge of the English language testing; purpose of the test is not strong; proficiency tests and achievement tests seriously out of line; placement tests and diagnostic tests trend formalization; analysis of test items and test scores is not sufficient; papers in the selection and design of the questions was thoughtless; subjective test and writing test is no uniform standard. In this case, the teachers but also to test scores as a standard of evaluating students good or bad, can not fully convincing, that the validity of non-compliance. So the test is an important basis to measure the effectiveness of teaching is not entirely accurate. This teaching quality detection mere formality, only design a good test mode and improve teaching strategies, to said test validity. In this paper, the basic theory of the test, five of Bachman Palmer (1999: 17) on the English test quality requirements of reliability, validity, and interactive-based analysis of problems exist in the English test. This paper describes the advantages and disadvantages of direct tests and indirect tests from a teaching point of view, is not directly test reliability and validity, indirect testing higher reliability but low validity analysis study. Writing two test differences complement each other in the form of to trend higher test validity, and make recommendations for improvement. Reduce test negative backwash effect on teaching, and to play a positive test, the best backwash effect. This thesis is composed of five parts, the first part is the introduction, introduces the research background and significance of the second part of the literature review, introduces language test the concept, the theory of the English language test different set forth, and the study of basic theoretical basis. The third part of this thesis is elaborated study design, the introduced specific research papers, research objects, tools, data analysis and research process. The fourth part is the data analysis. The fifth part is a the conclusions mainly introduce the research results, the limitations of the study, and of the actual teaching high school English.