Towards A New Process Approach to Rate Test Format Difficulty  

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Al Fraidan, Abdullah

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: Opening New Lines of Communication in Applied Linguistics: Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt University, 5-7 September 2013, page 3-16.
Topik: Multiple choice; Cloze test; Test difficulty; Test taking strategies
Fulltext: Towards A New Process.pdf (5.91MB)

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The study reported here revisited the issue of rating the difficulty of two test formats or test types, using a new process approach instead of the traditional product approach. This process approach relied on spotting signs of difficulties encountered by respondents while verbalizing their thoughts in two English vocabulary achievement test formats, an open cloze test (20 items with no choices offered) and a multiple choice test (20 sentence-based gap filling test which can be filled from a pool of alternatives, MCGF). These two test types were selected as they are said to be the ones used most commonly in Saudi Arabia. Close analysis revealed eight signs of difficulties: reporting difficulty of the test as a whole; stating a problem; pausing at a gap (filled or unfilled) and longer time spent on an item; skipping an item; repeating words and phrases; number of answers considered for an item; use of L1; number of all strategies and processes used in each test plus getting an item wrong, which is a product approach. Ten males and ten females participated in this study. The analysis of these signs of difficulty showed that the multiple choice test was found by participants to be significantly more difficult, based on four out of seven common signs of difficulty (one was MCGF-specific), than the cloze test, although the level of both tests was appropriate for the participants according to the students’ scores and some expert judgments.

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