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Culturas, Identidades e Litero-Línguas Estrangeiras; atas do I Colóquio Internacional de Línguas Estrangeiras, 2018
Establishing the goals and needs of potential candidates is of the utmost importance when designi... more Establishing the goals and needs of potential candidates is of the utmost importance when
designing a Proficiency exam for language certification purposes. Having a clearly defined
testing goal will help us better define our construct and thus allow for a solid validity
argument. In our case, as a Language Centre within a higher education institution, our goal
when designing such a test is to meet the demands of the university and its members in the
European Higher Education Area.
Keywords: higher education, students’ needs, language examination.
Our study starts by analysing our target population, for which we needed to define the profile
of our candidates and determine the sample that was going to be used for research purposes.
We decided to use students from our language centre as research population since it was large
enough to give us a representative sample and it enabled us to use computer tools that would
allow for the automatic processing of the data.
This paper presents the results of our research which have allowed us to define the construct
of our test based on the specific needs of our environment.
Culturas, Identidades e Litero-Línguas Estrangeiras; atas do I Colóquio Internacional de Línguas Estrangeiras, 2018
Establishing the goals and needs of potential candidates is of the utmost importance when designi... more Establishing the goals and needs of potential candidates is of the utmost importance when
designing a Proficiency exam for language certification purposes. Having a clearly defined
testing goal will help us better define our construct and thus allow for a solid validity
argument. In our case, as a Language Centre within a higher education institution, our goal
when designing such a test is to meet the demands of the university and its members in the
European Higher Education Area.
Keywords: higher education, students’ needs, language examination.
Our study starts by analysing our target population, for which we needed to define the profile
of our candidates and determine the sample that was going to be used for research purposes.
We decided to use students from our language centre as research population since it was large
enough to give us a representative sample and it enabled us to use computer tools that would
allow for the automatic processing of the data.
This paper presents the results of our research which have allowed us to define the construct
of our test based on the specific needs of our environment.