Building a Validity Argument for the TOEFL Junior® Tests
Ching‐Ni Hsieh
Abstract:The TOEFL Junior® tests are designed to evaluate young language students' English reading, listening, speaking, and writing skills in an English‐medium secondary instructional context. This paper articulates a validity argument constructed to support the use and interpretation of the TOEFL Junior test scores for the purpose of placement, progress monitoring, and evaluation of a test taker's English skills. The validity argument is built within an argument‐based approach to validation and consists of six validi… Show more
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