2차 영어 중등교사 임용 논술시험 문항의 탐색: 예비교원과 전문가의 관점에서

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The present study aims to explore the validity of argumentative-essay test for the Secondary School Selection Test(SSST). For the purpose, 89 pre-service English teachers, two expert raters, and six content experts participated in the study. First, in order to investigate whether any misfitting rhetorical pattern exists or not, the researcher conducted FACETS analysis. As a result, all rhetorical patterns came into fitting category, which meant that all rhetorical pattern used in the existing secondary school selection test reliably measured the test-takers' writing performance. However, con & pro type of writing was judged to be easiest and therefore to fail to have proper discriminatory power. Therefore, the researcher raised the need of a new writing task such as integrativeness of multiple reading into writing in replace of the pro & con type of writing. Secondly, the survey analysis enlightened that pre-service teachers regarded English education as the most important domain in SSST, that survey respondents pointed out English linguistics as the most difficult domain and general English as the easiest one, and that they criticized the test items mainly in terms of the length or complexity of the given test prompts, the discrimination, and construct of test items. Finally, the professionals provided the comment about the optimal relationship between general English and English education, the criteria for selection of appropriate test items for measuring English linguistics, and the components that the test items of English literature should measure.

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