Abstract
Language testing plays a vital role in English teaching. It can accurately reflect the teaching effect in a short period of time, and it is also an indispensable teaching method to assess the knowledge of students. The current study takes the final test of adult English listening class in School of Continual Education as an example, under the theoretical language assessment framework of Bachman and Palmer, uses the data collected by the statistical analysis software SPSS to test the reliability and validity of the listening final exam from a statistical perspective. The study found that the reliability and validity of the selected listening test were generally acceptable, the differentiation among students was obvious but it has high item difficulty. Therefore, it is necessary to improve the authenticity of the listening test and the communicative skill of the listening material. This study is conducted to find out the problems of the current listening test in the School of Continual Education, and propose specific solutions based on the basic elements of the language test. It is hoped that the research in this article will play a positive role in designing adult English listening tests.
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