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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
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Omarov, Nazarbek Bakytbekovich; Mohammed, Aisha; Alghurabi, Ammar Muhi Khleel; Alallo, Hajir Mahmood Ibrahim; Ali, Yusra Mohammed; Hassan, Aalaa Yaseen; Demeuova, Lyazat; Viktorovna, Shvedova Irina; Nazym, Bekenova; Al Khateeb, Nashaat Sultan Afif – International Journal of Language Testing, 2023
The Multiple-choice (MC) item format is commonly used in educational assessments due to its economy and effectiveness across a variety of content domains. However, numerous studies have examined the quality of MC items in high-stakes and higher-education assessments and found many flawed items, especially in terms of distractors. These faulty…
Descriptors: Test Items, Multiple Choice Tests, Item Response Theory, English (Second Language)
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Baghaei, Purya; Dourakhshan, Alireza – International Journal of Language Testing, 2016
The purpose of the present study is to compare the psychometric qualities of canonical single-response multiple-choice items with their double-response counterparts. Thirty, two-response fouroption grammar items for undergraduate students of English were constructed. A second version of the test was constructed by replacing one of the correct…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Multiple Choice Tests, Test Items, Factor Analysis