Authenticity and Test Taker's Strategies in Iranian EFL Classes

The theoretical framework for this study is research in the areas of language testing andreading. and overview of language testing and current developments in language testing research,including factors that affect test performance and authentic assessment. Test type as the taskvariable, test-taking strategies and gender as the reader variable, and authenticity as the textvariable were selected and their interaction is examined. Therefore, the present study sets out toinvestigate the specific test-taking strategies employed by Iranian EFL students, readingauthentic or simplified reading texts and the difference between the two sets of strategies, toexplore whether males and females reported different patterns of reading and test-taking strategyuse, and whether respondents to multiple-choice and open-ended questions used different testtakingstrategies while reading. methodology of the study, including the characteristics of theparticipants, the structure of the materials, and the description of the procedure which has beenused in the present study and finally the details of the statistical measures employed to analyzethe data collected.