It takes a whole village... Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven bei der Entwicklung eines Testverfahrens zum Zuhören

The article shows how the perspectives of linguistics, literature, didactics, psychometrics, acting, administration and technology are interlocked in the construction of test instruments. The project stịm·mig has developed and evaluated a new kind of test items for the assessment of listening competency in primary school. Principles of the item construction are being explained and illustrated on the basis of sample items. It becomes clear that interdisciplinary cooperation is indispensable for meeting the state of the art in the various aspects of test development.