Validating the Test of Academic Literacy for Postgraduate Students (TALPS)

Rambiritch, Avasha

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dc.contributor.author	Rambiritch, Avasha
dc.date.accessioned	2013-11-25T11:36:46Z
dc.date.available	2013-11-25T11:36:46Z
dc.date.issued	2013
dc.description.abstract	The concepts of reliability and validity help to determine whether a test is a strong one or not, does what it is designed to do, tests what it is designed to test, and whether we can make inferences that are justified about the test takers, based on their score (Van der Walt & Steyn, 2007). Clearly, a lot depends on the reliability and validity of a test. This article will take the form of a validation argument of the Test of Academic Literacy for Postgraduate Students (TALPS). It will do so by providing a priori evidence collected before the test event (Weir, 2005) to support eight claims made about the reliability and validity of the test.	en_US
dc.description.librarian	am2013	en_US
dc.description.librarian	gv2013
dc.description.uri	http://www.ajol.info/journal_index.php?jid=37&ab=jlt	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Rambiritch, A 2013, 'Validating the Test of Academic Literacy for Postgraduate Students (TALPS)', Journal for Language Teaching, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 175-193.	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0259-9570
dc.identifier.other	10.4314/jlt.v47i1.8
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2263/32594
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	South African Association for Language Teaching	en_US
dc.rights	South African Association for Language Teaching	en_US
dc.subject	Academic literacy	en_US
dc.subject	Content validity	en_US
dc.subject	Face validity	en_US
dc.subject	Construct validity	en_US
dc.subject.lcsh	Literacy -- Graduate students	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Educational tests and measurements -- Graduate students	en
dc.title	Validating the Test of Academic Literacy for Postgraduate Students (TALPS)	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US