VALIDITY OF HIGH-STAKES MILITARY LANGUAGE TESTS FROM TEACHERS’ VIEWPOINT

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

VALIDITY OF HIGH-STAKES MILITARY LANGUAGE TESTS FROM TEACHERS’ VIEWPOINT

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The military personnel in NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) countries is commonly tested by high-stakes standardized language tests in accordance with NATO STANAG (Standardization Agreement) 6001. Since passing or failing at the examination can significantly affect the soldiers’ careers and personal lives, high validity, reliability and accountability has to be guaranteed. As far as the military in the Czech Republic is concerned, the only body responsible for quality assurance in language testing is the Language Centre of the University of Defence. All language specialists at the Centre are fully aware of the responsibility and permanently devote their efforts to set and maintain the measures to guarantee high validity and reliability of the tests and their results. Nevertheless, one gap that needed to be filled was finding out the teachers’ perspective concerning the tests which resulted in launching this survey. The survey was based on a questionnaire distributed to the teachers electronically. The questionnaire covered 11 questions and was answered by 60 respondents. The questions focused on the teachers’ opinions on examination in terms of its difficulty, objectivity, as well as problems connected with the preparation for it. The paper will present main results together with potential issues to discuss.

Název v anglickém jazyce

VALIDITY OF HIGH-STAKES MILITARY LANGUAGE TESTS FROM TEACHERS’ VIEWPOINT

Popis výsledku anglicky

The military personnel in NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) countries is commonly tested by high-stakes standardized language tests in accordance with NATO STANAG (Standardization Agreement) 6001. Since passing or failing at the examination can significantly affect the soldiers’ careers and personal lives, high validity, reliability and accountability has to be guaranteed. As far as the military in the Czech Republic is concerned, the only body responsible for quality assurance in language testing is the Language Centre of the University of Defence. All language specialists at the Centre are fully aware of the responsibility and permanently devote their efforts to set and maintain the measures to guarantee high validity and reliability of the tests and their results. Nevertheless, one gap that needed to be filled was finding out the teachers’ perspective concerning the tests which resulted in launching this survey. The survey was based on a questionnaire distributed to the teachers electronically. The questionnaire covered 11 questions and was answered by 60 respondents. The questions focused on the teachers’ opinions on examination in terms of its difficulty, objectivity, as well as problems connected with the preparation for it. The paper will present main results together with potential issues to discuss.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Lingua et Vita

ISSN

1338-6743

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

X.

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

SK - Slovenská republika

Počet stran výsledku

8

Strana od-do

106-113

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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