Abstract:

In this research, an achievement test consisting of multiple choice questions is aimed to develop for Foreign Language I course within the scope of common compulsory courses of the universities. For validity and reliability purposes, the achievement test was applied to 102 freshmen studying in two different departments in the last week of fall semester of 2011-2012 academic year. Having consulted two field experts working in the field of language teaching in order to ensure the validity of achievement test, the number of items that would be included in the draft achievement test was determined as 50 and then item discrimination and item difficulty analyses were carried out. After item discrimination analysis 8 items and 2 items after item difficulty analysis were subtracted so 40 items were included in the final test.KR-20 value of the test was examined for the internal reliability and it was made sure that the test had adequate reliability (0.80)

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