Application of Rasch Model for Cloze Test Quality Analysis in Language Teaching Situation

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10.2991/978-94-6463-494-5_27How to use a DOI?

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Rasch Model; Cloze Items; The Content Validity Analysis Framework; Ministeps; Language Instruction

Abstract

The fundamental function of language testing is to facilitate language teaching and learning. Hence, teachers need to be informed of effective measurement methods. Quality control of routine language tests in daily teaching situations needs to be given more attention. This research employs the Rasch model together with a content validity analysis framework to look into the quality of cloze items in a Grade Seven English mid-term test paper with the purpose to introduce quantitative test quality control measures to the daily teaching situations to help discriminate item suitability to the learners. To be specific, the following five indicators of unidimensionality, local independence, item fitness to the model, suitabilityof items to test-takers and measurement bias between groups in the Rasch model are employed for the examination of the performance of a group of Grade Seven students in their mid-term test paper in a junior high school in Jiangsu Province. The results show that these cloze items in the test paper are of highquality in general. However, poor differentiation of language ability for the above-average level students and measurement bias between male and female students are detected among certain items. The examination process and the findings concerning the cloze items under investigation have provided powerful evidence that the Rasch model has its special advantages in discriminating items in terms of item difficulty and person ability on the one hand, it also demonstrates its edge on classical measures in terms of the amount of detailed and multi-faceted information it provides. Discussions around the findings and their implications for language testing use in daily language instruction are provided at the end of the paper.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Chang Xinping
AU  - Cao Jiaying
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/08/22
TI  - Application of Rasch Model for Cloze Test Quality Analysis in Language Teaching Situation
BT  - Proceedings of the Pacific-Rim Objective Measurement Symposium (PROMS 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 415
EP  - 436
SN  - 2667-128X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-494-5_27
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-494-5_27
ID  - Xinping2024
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