The spss-based analysis of reading comprehension—take grade eight english mid-term test for example

Abstract

Based on some language testing theories, an analysis of an English Mid-term Examination of grade eight students of JingZhi Middle School is made in this paper. By means of SPSS statistical software, the former study firstly makes a whole analysis of the test paper, which covers descriptive statistics, reliability and validity. Subsequently, on the basis of the former study, this study mainly makes an analysis of the relationship of all the items in reading comprehension from the perspective of facility value, discrimination index, reliability and validity. The research aims to find some problems in reading comprehension in this test paper. Thus, according to the results of this analysis, the quality of test papers can be improved and some advice can be given to language teaching.