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Direct linkFajer Shamsaldeen; Jue Wang; Soyeon Ahn – Language Testing in Asia, 2024
The use of college entrance exams for facilitating admission decisions become controversial, and the central argument is around the fairness of test scores. The Kuwait University English Aptitude Test (KUEAT) is a high-stakes test, but very few studies have examined the psychometric quality of the scores for this national-level assessment. This…
Descriptors: Test Bias, High Stakes Tests, College Entrance Examinations, Foreign Countries
Bormanaki, Hamidreza Babaee; Ajideh, Parviz – Language Testing in Asia, 2022
This paper reports on an investigation of differential item functioning (DIF) in the Iranian Undergraduate University Entrance Special English Exam (IUUESEE) across four native language groups including the Azeri, the Persian, the Kurdish, and the Luri test takers via Rasch analysis. A total sample of 14,172 participants was selected for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Bias, Undergraduate Students, Native Language
Moghadam, M.; Nasirzadeh, F. – Language Testing in Asia, 2020
The present study tries to investigate the fairness of an English reading comprehension test employing Kunnan's (2004) test fairness framework (TFF) as the most comprehensive model available for test fairness. The participants of this study comprised 300 freshman students taking general English course chosen based on the availability sampling,…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Reading Tests, Reading Comprehension, Test Items
Song, Xiaomei; He, Lianzhen – Language Testing in Asia, 2015
"Project 211" is one of the most important educational policies in China, which aims at selecting a small number of "key universities" for sustainable development in the 21st century. These selected "key universities" have received substantial funding from the government so they can recruit outstanding faculty and be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Public Policy, Language Tests
Runnels, Judith – Language Testing in Asia, 2013
Differential item functioning (DIF) is when a test item favors or hinders a characteristic exhibited by group members of a test-taking population. DIF analyses are statistical procedures used to determine to what extent the content of an item affects the item endorsement of sub-groups of test-takers. If DIF is found for many items on the test, the…
Descriptors: Test Items, Test Bias, Item Response Theory, College Freshmen
