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The relationship between test-takers’ first language, listening proficiency and their performance on paired speaking tests
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Contrasting the oral and written narratives of six- and eight-year-old Canadian children
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Chinese L2 learners’ depth of vocabulary knowledge and its role in reading comprehension
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Zhang, D; Yang, X. - : Wiley for American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2016
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Using The Mobile Application Evernote for Diagnostic Assessment to Enhance Foreign Language Proficiency
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An evaluation of a post-entry test: An item analysis using Classical Test Theory (CTT)
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In: Open Access Dissertations (2016)
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This study is an analysis of test reliability of two screening tasks (C-test and cloze-elide) in the Assessment of College English-International test (ACE-In), a post-entry test developed at Purdue University. The study uses Classical Test Theory (CTT) to assess the reliability of these test items. CTT is selected because this theory is the standard comprehensive procedure for developing, evaluating, and scaling test items (DeVellis, 2006). This reliability analysis is important because it is a prerequisite to the test validation process. This study has three major research questions: 1. What is the item characteristics of C-test and cloze elide? 2. What are the average values of item difficulty and item discrimination of C-test and cloze elide items? 3. What are the internal consistency coefficients for and correlation coefficient between the C-tests and cloze elide tests? The results of the pilot study showed that the average score of C-test is 77.8 (SD = 9.98), and that of cloze-elide test is 36.59 (SD = 14.86). Considering the average values of item difficulty and item discrimination of both tasks, C-test items are generally considered easy (item difficulty > 0.7), while cloze-elide items are of medium difficulty (item difficulty ≈ 0.6). Even though C-test items have acceptable discrimination i.e., the average biserial correlation indices (rpb) are 0.3, cloze-elide items are shown to have much better discrimination values on average i.e., rpb indices are higher than 0.5. The Cronbach’s alpha coefficients, a measure of internal consistency, of C-test and cloze-elide are .88 and .96, respectively. The Pearson product-moment correlation analysis revealed that the correlation between the C-test and cloze-elide is high (r = .66), and it is significant with the p-value less than .01. These analyses of test reliability indicated that the test items were measuring the same underlying construct – generally language proficiency. Even though the key results of the item analyses showed that C-test did not meet the standard of item difficulty and discrimination, it does not necessarily mean that C-test cannot sufficiently serve its intended purpose as a preliminary screening tool. After examining the score distributions of both C-test and cloze-elide scores, the scores of both tasks range widely. With fairly wide standard deviations, there is a potential to combine the scores of these two screening tasks to identify the students who had a uniformly low performance across both tasks.
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Classical test theory; Language literature and linguistics; Post entry test; Test development
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URL: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_dissertations/862
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TOEFL Strategies: A Complete Guide to the iBT
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Speaking and Writing Strategies for the TOEFL iBT (2nd ed.)
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Avaliação de nivelamento no programa de português para estrangeiros da UFRGS : uma proposta de novos instrumentos avaliativos de leitura e escrita
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Sprachstandsfeststellung - eine Mixed-Methods Studie anhand der Profilanalyse und des C-Tests
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Minimal pair therapy as a method of improving oral English proficiency among non-native English language learners (ELLs)
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Short persistent sleep duration is associated with poor receptive vocabulary performance in middle childhood
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The productivity of ‘unnatural’ labial palatalization in Xhosa
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The assessment of Bosnian EFL learners’ knowledge by two different measures: test and writing assignment
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In: ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics), Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 41-57 (2016) (2016)
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Test Fairness in Second Language Assessment
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Developing a c-test to measure language ability as an alternative to a skills-based test Ingrid Sarapuu, Ene Alas
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In: Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühingu Aastaraamat, Vol 12, Pp 237-252 (2016) (2016)
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The Educational Consequences of Language Proficiency for Young Children
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The Effects of Visual Input on Scoring a Speaking Achievement Test
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LEARNERS’ PERSPECTIVES OF FACTORS INFLUENCING GAINS IN STANDARDIZED ENGLISH TEST SCORES
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