A Study Of The Reliability And Validity Of The Task And Item Number Of Spoken Test Of HSK(Advanced)

Recently, the scale of HSK (Advanced) and the number of the test takers are rapidly expanded. It is very important to study how to improve the efficiency of the rating for the spoken test. The thesis argues that it is necessary to supply practical data to know whether there is more efficient and economic format of the test paper. This article makes use of the records of the spoken test and combination of the 3 kinds of tasks (that is 3 items).Then We let raters to rate the different combinations. The Generalizability Theory is used to study the reliability of the different combinations. Meanwhile, the correlation between the results of the different combinations and the criterion validity is adopted to make a further research on validity of the task and item number. The results show that the level 3 (just rating the question 2) is both reliable and valid.