| Table of Contents in English | 第1-6页 |
| Table of Contents in Chinese | 第6-8页 |
| List of Figures and Tables | 第8-9页 |
| English Abstract | 第9-12页 |
| Chinese Abstract | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter I Introduction | 第14-20页 |
| ·Overview | 第14页 |
| ·Research backgrounds | 第14-16页 |
| ·Rationales of the study | 第16-18页 |
| ·The purposes and functions of the classroom speaking test | 第16-17页 |
| ·Concepts and functions of the analytic rating scale | 第17-18页 |
| ·Purposes and implications of the study | 第18页 |
| ·Organization of the thesis | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter II Literature Review | 第20-26页 |
| ·The validity of rating scale | 第20页 |
| ·The ways of collecting evidence | 第20-22页 |
| ·The score report forms in the analytic rating scale | 第22页 |
| ·On the validation issues of the analytic rating scale | 第22-26页 |
| ·The validation on the interrelationships among the analytic rating scale | 第23页 |
| ·Validation on the score reliability in the analytic rating scale | 第23-24页 |
| ·The relationships between analytic ratings and the composite score | 第24-26页 |
| Chapter III Methodology | 第26-38页 |
| ·Participants | 第26页 |
| ·Testees | 第26页 |
| ·Raters | 第26页 |
| ·Measurement tools | 第26-31页 |
| ·The design on the syllabus-based spoken English test — speaking test domain and test tasks | 第26-28页 |
| ·The design on the analytic rating scale | 第28-31页 |
| ·Administrating procedures | 第31-32页 |
| ·Ratings | 第32页 |
| ·Methods on data analysis | 第32-38页 |
| ·The confirmation on the interrelationships among the five analytic rating scales by the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) | 第32-33页 |
| ·The relevant concepts of CFA and multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) | 第32-33页 |
| ·The application of CFA in this study | 第33页 |
| ·The overview on Generalizability theory (G-theory) in the study | 第33-36页 |
| ·The relevant concepts of G-theory | 第33-35页 |
| ·The application of G-theory in this study | 第35-36页 |
| ·The combined application of the G-theory and CFA | 第36-38页 |
| Chapter IV Data Analysis and Results | 第38-49页 |
| ·Introduction | 第38页 |
| ·Study on the interrelationships among the analytic rating scale | 第38-45页 |
| ·What is the degree of relevance of the CFA models on trait factors? | 第38-41页 |
| ·The proposition of the relevant models | 第41-45页 |
| ·On the reliability of classroom speaking ratings | 第45-47页 |
| ·Dependability of the analytic rating scale in the classroom speaking test | 第45-47页 |
| ·Reliability of the composite score representing the overall speaking ability | 第47页 |
| ·The dependability of the decisions | 第47-49页 |
| Chapter V Conclusions | 第49-54页 |
| ·Major findings and implications | 第49-52页 |
| ·Limitations of current study | 第52页 |
| ·Suggestions for further study | 第52-54页 |
| Bibliography | 第54-64页 |
| Appendices | 第64-67页 |
| Appendix I | 第64-66页 |
| Appendix II | 第66-67页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第67-70页 |
