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| Autor/inn/en | Alderman, Donald L.; Holland, Paul W. |
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| Institution | Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. |
| Titel | Item Performance Across Native Language Groups on the Test of English as a Foreign Language. TOEFL Research Reports, 9. |
| Quelle | (1981), (149 Seiten)
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Monographie |
| Schlagwörter | Quantitative Daten; Comparative Testing; English (Second Language); Factor Analysis; Foreign Students; Language Proficiency; Postsecondary Education; Reading Tests; Statistical Data; Test Validity; Test of English as a Foreign Language |
| Abstract | The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) was examined for instances in which the item performance of examinees with comparable scores differed according to their native languages. A chi-square procedure, sensitive to deviations of less than ten percent from the expected frequencies of correct item responses across several language groups, revealed significant differences on seven-eighths of the TOEFL items. Reviewers familiar with particular languages could attribute the relative advantage or disadvantage of those language groups on a specific item to linguistic similarities or dissimilarities with the English language. Reviewers could not, however, identify which items would exhibit differential performance across groups based upon inspection of a test form and answer key alone. These findings suggest that examinees' performance on given items in a test of proficiency in a second language will vary according to linguistic contrasts with their native language and that statistical procedures will be necessary for identifying items with exaggerated or unexplained differences across language groups. Four appendices provide a large number of statistical tables and graphs. (Author/AMH) |
| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
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