贵阳市第九中学英语月考实用性及反拨效应研究-学科教学(英语)专业论文.docxVIP

i i PAGE PAGE vi Abstract The thesis is concerned with a research on the practicality and backwash of English monthly tests in order to offer the scientific analysis and assessment on the actual effect on the English monthly tests which are commonly adopted. Testing and teaching greatly support and enhance each other. Testing was born with the development of teaching. As the most commonly used judgment method of teaching and learning currently, tests are always introduced to obtain feedback on students’ learning progress. And tests are also needed when rational educational decisions are made so as to ensure effective teaching and improve teaching quality. Furthermore, the New Curriculum Standards for Senior High School English advocates the formative assessments for students, the quality of common tests organized by school, as one way of formative assessments, seems very important and the design of such papers should be very prudent. Nevertheless, it is not uncommon to find testing problems resulting from misconceptions of tests in the context of high school teaching. Teachers may fail to construct appropriate tests for students and have risk of the misuse of the tests. As for the problem that the unstable quality of the current tests construction organized by schools own, the thesis took the monthly test in Guiyang No.9 Senior High School as a case to explore the rationality of English monthly tests and the problems whether the monthly tests can get positive feedback of the current teaching effect and whether the monthly tests can get positive backwash for later teaching. Under the guidance of English testing theories, the research adopted the means of questionnaires，interviews and analysis of testing papers to do some research which has been done through an investigation which involved data collection and data analysis quantitatively as well as qualitatively in detail from the following aspects: the validity of the test paper, the testing types, the facility va