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Japanese speaking placement test : Validation of a task and an evaluation tool / Beukmann Fusako, Nemoto Aiko, Matsushita Tatsuhiko // Joural of japanese language teaching (日本語教育) No. 175, April 2020
Japan : The University of Tokyo, 2020
p. 146-154

Ideally, a placement speaking test should be administered to as many examiness as possible within a short period of timel the evaluation procedure should be simple and convenient, with highly reliable and valid resutls. To accomplish this, a Japanese speaking test task with an evaluation tool consisting of rubric and voice samples was developed. Test reliability and validity were verified with the implememtation of an experiment involving four Japanese teachers (raters) assessing the test results using the evaluation tool. The test task situation "refusal" was employed with 32 students from beginner to the advanced level participating. A high corresponding high correlation with the Simple Performance Oriented Test (SPOT) which requires aural skills. In contrast, there was a low correlation with written receptive skill; regardless, the criterion-related validity of this test was resonably and conclusively satisfied. The task and evaluation tools are well suited to evaliluate the learner's speaking ability, ensuring execellent reliability; assessing each learner's lavel required only one to two minutes with high consistency and correlation among raters. Although intermediate level assessments appear to be more challenging, this test task and evaluation tool can be very valuable as a Japanese speaking test.