International Journal of Education

English reading has always been one of the important ways to enrich students’ extracurricular input and broaden their horizons. Under the background of the "New curriculum standard", reading comprehension is an important carrier to evaluate students’ core literacy of English subject, which occupies a large proportion in the English test of high school entrance examination. Whether the reading test can truly examine the students’ reading ability stipulated in the curriculum standard or the examination outline, that is, whether it can ensure its content validity, will be the key factor to determine whether the test itself is effective. Therefore, this paper takes the English reading comprehension test text of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region high school entrance examination from 2022 to 2024 as the research sample, and constructs the content validity analysis framework of English reading comprehension in the senior high school entrance examination based on the core literacy of English subject, aiming to have a positive backwash effect on the teaching and evaluation of English reading.

Core literacy of English subject; High school entrance examination; English reading comprehension test; Content validity