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Development of Procedures for Resolving Irregularities in the Administration of the Listening Comprehension Section of the TOEFL Test.
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Way, Walter D.; McKinley, Robert L. – 1991
Two procedures were developed to determine whether examinees in a given test center were affected by a testing irregularity on the Listening Comprehension section of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). One approach employed analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) on Listening Comprehension (Section 1) means using scores on Structure and…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Bayesian Statistics, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency
A Factor Analytic Item Response Theory Approach for Relating Item Content to Test Scores.
Abdel-fattah, Abdel-fattah A. – 1992
A scaling procedure is proposed, based on item response theory (IRT), to fit non-hierarchical test structure as well. The binary scores of a test of English were used for calculating the probabilities of answering each item correctly. The probability matrix was factor analyzed, and the difficulty intervals or estimates corresponding to the factors…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Difficulty Level, English, Estimation (Mathematics)