The Content Analysis Checklists Project

The Content Analysis Checklists, originally developed with LINGUA funding (93-09/1326/UK- III) relate to the description of test content, and the development of an instrument to allow for a systematic comparison of examination materials across various languages. The instrument has been designed to offer two levels of description:

I. a brief checklist which permits rapid assessment of the salient features of a test;

II. a more detailed checklist which allows for the specific description of materials within components of a test battery or for test tasks used for various purposes.

Individual Component Checklists:

General
Reading
Structural Competence
Listening
Writing
Speaking

Individual Component Checklists (For use with one task):

Reading
Structural Competence
Listening
Writing
Speaking

The Content Analysis Checklists have been produced in other languages by ALTE partners. For instance, under the TiPS Development Programme for Testing in Polish and Slovene – a Socrates Lingua 2 project – a Polish and Slovene version was produced. TIPS document. Similarly, under the Socrates funded Devprothell project (87663 CP 1 2000 1 UK Lingua LD) a group of ALTE partners produced Content Analysis Checklists in Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian and Lithuanian.