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Mihara, Kei – Language Testing in Asia, 2015
Background: The present study aims to investigate which variables affect English as a foreign language (EFL) students' listening comprehension test performance. It examines two types of variables: (1) test formats and (2) test materials. Methods: First, three types of test formats are investigated: (1) questions are not written but given orally…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Listening Comprehension, Listening Comprehension Tests
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Baghaei, Purya; Aryadoust, Vahid – International Journal of Testing, 2015
Research shows that test method can exert a significant impact on test takers' performance and thereby contaminate test scores. We argue that common test method can exert the same effect as common stimuli and violate the conditional independence assumption of item response theory models because, in general, subsets of items which have a shared…
Descriptors: Test Format, Item Response Theory, Models, Test Items
Berne, Jane E. – 1993
A study investigated the comparability of second language (L2) listening comprehension tests by examining the effects of varying text type and assessment task on student performance. Student target language experience was an additional variable considered. Subjects were 107 beginning and 64 advanced-intermediate college-level Spanish second…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Language Role, Language Tests, Listening Comprehension