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Examining the Effect of Item Difficulty and Rater Leniency on Iranian Test Takers' Performance on WDCT and DSAT: A Comparative Study

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Reza Shahi; Hamdollah Ravand; Golam Reza Rohani – International Journal of Language Testing, 2025

The current paper intends to exploit the Many Facet Rasch Model to investigate and compare the impact of situations (items) and raters on test takers' performance on the Written Discourse Completion Test (WDCT) and Discourse Self-Assessment Tests (DSAT). In this study, the participants were 110 English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students at…

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction