IELTS Research Reports

An empirical investigation of the process of writing Academic Readingtest items for the International English Language Testing SystemWeir, CJ, Hawkey, R, Green, A, Devi, S and Unaldi, A, 2009a, ‘The relationship between the academicreading construct as measured by IELTS and the reading experiences of students in their first year ofstudy at a British university’, in Research Reports Volume 9, ed, P Thompson, British Council/IDPAustralia, LondonWeir, CJ, Hawkey, R, Green, A and Devi, S, 2009b, ‘The cognitive processes underlying the academicreading construct as measured by IELTS’, in Research Reports Volume 9, ed, P Thompson, BritishCouncil/IDP Australia, LondonWesman, AG, 1971, ‘Writing the test item’, in Educational Measurement, ed, Thorndike RL, AmericanCouncil on Education, Washington, DC, pp 99-111Wildt, AR and Mazis, W, 1978, Determinants of scale response: label versus position, Journal ofMarketing Research, vol 15, pp 261-267IELTS Research Reports Volume 11331