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Comparison of IRT and CTT Using Secondary School Reading Comprehension Assessments
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Coggins, Joanne V.; Kim, Jwa K.; Briggs, Laura C. – Research in the Schools, 2017
The Gates-MacGinitie Reading Comprehension Test, fourth edition (GMRT-4) and the ACT Reading Tests (ACT-R) were administered to 423 high school students in order to explore the similarities and dissimilarities of data produced through classical test theory (CTT) and item response theory (IRT) analysis. Despite the many advantages of IRT…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Test Theory, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests
A Correlation Study: The New Jersey College Basic Skills Placement Test and Degrees of Reading Power Test.
Sammon, Susan F. – 1988
A study investigated whether a positive correlation existed between scores obtained by incoming freshman on the recently developed Degrees of Reading Power Test (DRP) and the required Reading Comprehension subtest of the New Jersey College Basic Skills Placement Test (NJCBSPT). The subjects, 217 William Paterson College freshman enrolled in a…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Testing, Correlation, Educational Testing
Measuring the Instructional Sensitivity of ESL Reading Comprehension Items.
Brutten, Sheila R.; And Others – 1988
A study attempted to estimate the instructional sensitivity of items in three reading comprehension tests in English as a second language (ESL). Instructional sensitivity is a test-item construct defined as the tendency for a test item to vary in difficulty as a function of instruction. Similar tasks were given to readers at different proficiency…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Difficulty Level, English (Second Language)
Performance of Grade 5 Students in a CMLR Program on the CTBS Test of Reading Comprehension, October 1985 (Year 3 of a Comparative Longitudinal Study).
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York Region Board of Education, Aurora (Ontario). – 1986
The effectiveness of the Chicago Mastery Learning Reading (CMLR) Program implemented in Ontario's Kettleby Public Schools (KPS) was measured by the students' reading progress and comparisons with the progress of other students in French immersion (FI) and other non-FI programs, including a gifted program. Within six months of CMLR implementation,…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, French
French Immersion Studies, Year 3 (1985-86). Tests of (English) Reading Skills.
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York Region Board of Education, Aurora (Ontario). – 1986
To determine whether students enrolled in one Ontario region's early French immersion (FI) programs developed English reading skills comparable to their non-FI peers, a monitoring process was begun in the first FI program year (grade 3) in which formal English instruction is given. The FI cohort and a control group matched for mental abilities and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, English, Foreign Countries
Practice and Problems in Language Testing 5. Non-Classical Test Theory; Final Examinations in Secondary Schools. Papers Presented at the International Language Testing Symposium (5th, Arnhem, Netherlands, March 25-26, 1982).
van Weeren, J., Ed. – 1983
Presented in this symposium reader are nine papers, four of which deal with the theory and impact of the Rasch model on language testing and five of which discuss final examinations in secondary schools in both general and specific terms. The papers are: "Introduction to Rasch Measurement: Some Implications for Language Testing" (J. J.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Difficulty Level