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Language Background and Item Difficulty: The Development of a Computer-Adaptive Test of Japanese.

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Brown, Annie; Iwashita, Noriko – System, 1996

Investigates the performance of students from different language backgrounds, using data from a computer-adaptive Japanese grammar test developed as a placement tool. Findings indicate item difficulties to be quite different for each group of candidates and imply that when candidates are from a different background from that of the trial…

Descriptors: College Students, Computer Assisted Testing, Contrastive Linguistics, Foreign Countries