Abstract

• Despite an increasing research interest in different areas of subjects, the scientific understanding regarding teachers’ knowledge for teaching English is very limited. This study therefore aimed at developing a standardized test to assess English teaching knowledge of student teachers during their initial teacher education. The sample was composed of 120 ELT specialised students from final year, first semester in Yangon University of Education. In this study, the content area was assigned based on The TKT (Teaching Knowledge Test) Course by University of Cambridge and Cambridge ESOL Examination. Both pilot testing and field testing were conducted in February, 2019. The first draft of the test was developed with 60 multiple-choice items which were analysed by item analysis technique. The data were processed by Test Analysis Program software (TAP version 14.7.4) and then analysed. Results showed that the items of 15% were very good, 20% were reasonably good, 22% were need improvement and 43% were very poor. Final form of the test was constructed with 45 items in which 55.56% of item were good, 20% of them were fair and 24.44% of them were modified. The test which has medium difficulty level, high discrimination power and high reliability was finally developed.