Abstract While contemplating a new online assessment framework for global corporations in Turkey, developers faced the dilemma of how to create a modern English for Specific Purpose (ESP) writing proficiency assessment. The result was the Communicative English Proficiency Assessment (CEPA)® Written Communication Assessment™, a computer-based, criterion-referenced proficiency test. In its creation, and with the consideration of ESP tests’ need to first analyze the specific target language use context and situation (Douglas, 2000), developers utilized the evidence-centered design (ECD) approach (Mislevy & Haertel, 2006) to define and operationalize the construct of writing in the context of modern workplace communication. The first two of ECD’s five stages, domain analysis and domain modeling, are documented in this study along with their results and a discussion of challenges encountered. As the praxis of ESP assessment development theory is not well-established (Knoch & Macqueen, 2020), this study also attempts to shed light on how needs analyses might be conducted. And in keeping with the notion that assessment as argument is a cornerstone of test validation ( Kane, 2006 , 2012 ), this study reports on the use of ECD, conceiving of assessment practices as evidentiary arguments, to inform the design and development an ESP writing proficiency assessment.

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为 21 世纪的工作场所书面交流设计以熟练程度为导向的绩效任务：一种以证据为中心的设计方法

摘要 在考虑为土耳其的跨国公司建立新的在线评估框架时，开发人员面临着如何创建现代特定用途英语 (ESP) 写作能力评估的困境。结果是 Communicative English Proficiency Assessment (CEPA)® Written Communication Assessment™，这是一种基于计算机的标准参考能力测试。在其创建过程中，并考虑到 ESP 测试需要首先分析特定的目标语言使用上下文和情况（Douglas，2000），开发人员利用以证据为中心的设计（ECD）方法（Mislevy & Haertel，2006）来定义并在现代工作场所交流的背景下实施写作的结构。ECD 五个阶段中的前两个，领域分析和领域建模，本研究中记录了他们的结果以及对遇到的挑战的讨论。由于 ESP 评估发展理论的实践尚未完善（Knoch & Macqueen，2020），本研究还试图阐明如何进行需求分析。与将评估作为论据是测试验证的基石（凯恩，2006 年，2012 年）的观点保持一致，本研究报告了 ECD 的使用，将评估实践视为证据论据，为设计和开发 ESP 写作提供信息能力评估。