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Direct linkTaehyeong Kim; Byungmin Lee – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2025
The Korean College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) aims to assess Korean high school students' scholastic ability required for college readiness. As a high-stakes test, the examination serves as a pivotal hurdle for university admission and exerts a strong washback effect on the educational system in Korea. The present study set out to investigate…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Language Tests, Multiple Choice Tests
Download full textCohen, Andrew D. – 1987
Current issues in the literature on the testing of linguistic and communicative proficiency are reviewed and discussed in relation to reading comprehension testing. Several theoretical issues in language testing are discussed, including testing purposes and test validity. Areas of concern regarding methods of testing reading comprehension are then…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Computer Assisted Testing, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
van Roosmalen, Willem M. M. – 1983
The construction of objective tests for native language reading comprehension is described. The tests were designed for the early secondary school years in several kinds of schools, vocational and non-vocational. The description focuses on the use of the Rasch model in test development, to develop a large pool of homogenous items and establish…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Difficulty Level, Foreign Countries, Item Banks
Samson, Digna M. M. – 1983
The traditional multiple-choice reading comprehension test of English as a second language, used in the Dutch school-leaving examinations, has been criticized for its apparent lack of construct validity. The Dutch National Institute for Educational Measurement has conducted a number of studies to determine whether there is a different skill…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Tests, Multiple Choice Tests
Kreeft, Henk; Sanders, Piet – 1983
In the Dutch national examinations, reading comprehension tests are used for all languages. For the native language, reading comprehension is tested with reading passages and related questions to which the test-taker provides his own response, not choosing from a group of alternatives. One problem encountered in testing with these items is…
Descriptors: Dutch, Evaluation Methods, Evaluators, Foreign Countries
Oaster, T. R. F.; And Others – 1986
This study hypothesized that items in the one-question-per-passage format would be less easily answered when administered without their associated contexts than conventional reading comprehension items. A total of 256 seventh and eighth grade students were administered both Forms 3A and 3B of the Sequential Tests of Educational Progress (STEP 11).…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Difficulty Level, Grade 7, Grade 8
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
