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Barno S. Abdullaeva; Diyorjon Abdullaev; Nurislom I. Khursanov; Khurshida B. Kadirova; Laylo Djuraeva – International Journal of Language Testing, 2024
Cloze tests are commonly used in language testing as a quick measure of overall language ability or reading comprehension. A problem for the analysis of cloze tests with item response theory models is that cloze test items are locally dependent. This leads to the violation of the conditional or local independence assumption of IRT models. In this…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Language Tests, Test Items, Correlation
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Dhyaaldian, Safa Mohammed Abdulridah; Kadhim, Qasim Khlaif; Mutlak, Dhameer A.; Neamah, Nour Raheem; Kareem, Zaidoon Hussein; Hamad, Doaa A.; Tuama, Jassim Hassan; Qasim, Mohammed Saad – International Journal of Language Testing, 2022
A C-Test is a gap-filling test for measuring language competence in the first and second language. C-Tests are usually analyzed with polytomous Rasch models by considering each passage as a super-item or testlet. This strategy helps overcome the local dependence inherent in C-Test gaps. However, there is little research on the best polytomous…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Cloze Procedure, Reading Tests, Language Tests
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Dhyaaldian, Safa Mohammed Abdulridah; Al-Zubaidi, Sura Hasan; Mutlak, Dhameer A.; Neamah, Nour Raheem; Albeer, Ali A. Mohammed Ali; Hamad, Doaa A.; Al Hasani, Saad Fadhil; Jaber, Mustafa Musa; Maabreh, Hatem Ghaleb – International Journal of Language Testing, 2022
Cloze tests are gap-filling tests designed to measure overall language ability and reading comprehension in a second language. Due to their ease of construction and scoring, cloze tests are widely used in the context of second and foreign language testing. Previous research over the past decades has shown the reliability and validity of cloze…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Cloze Procedure, Reading Tests, Language Skills
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Yazdinejad, Anoushe; Zeraatpishe, Mitra – International Journal of Language Testing, 2019
In this study the validity of partial dictation as a measure of overall language proficiency was examined. Two partial dictation tests along with a C-Test, a cloze test, and a reading comprehension test, as criterion measures, were administered to a group of Iranian EFL learners. The coefficients of correlation between partial dictation and…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Verbal Communication, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
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Zare, Samaneh; Boori, Ali Akbar – International Journal of Language Testing, 2018
In this study, the cloze-elide test was developed and administered under time constraints. This research is aimed to examine the validity and reliability of the speeded cloze-elide test and investigate its relationship with reading comprehension, C-Test, and multiple-choice cloze test. Processing speed is a vital indicator to distinguish high to…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Timed Tests, Language Tests, English (Second Language)
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Fadaeipour, Anita; Zohoorian, Zahra – International Journal of Language Testing, 2017
The C-test as a measure of first and second language proficiency suffers from ceiling effect. That is, the C-test is very easy for native speakers and for advanced second language learners and many examinees obtain full scores. Therefore, the test cannot distinguish among advanced learners or native speakers. Speeded C-test is suggested as a…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency