Cloze tests revisited: exploring item characteristics with special attention to scoring methods  

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Kobayashi, Miyoko

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Modern Language Journal (sebagian Full Text & ada di JSTOR) vol. 86 no. 4 (Dec. 2002), page 571-586.
Fulltext: Vol 86 no 4 pp.571-586.pdf (2.3MB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/MLJ/86 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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This study examined the effects of item characteristics on doze test performance. A particular focus of the study was to investigate the relationship between a number of doze item characteristics and scoring methods. The item characteristics examined were: (a) content/function words, (b) parts of speech, (c) word frequency, (d) the number of occurrences of a word in the text, (e) alternative answers, (f) syntactic variation, (g) the amount of context, and (h) knowledge base. A total of 255 Japanese university students participated and were randomly assigned 1 of 4 sets of doze tests. The data revealed variations in the results of doze tests attributable to different scoring methods. The study showed the complex effects of item characteristics and scoring methods on test performance, both in terms of item difficulty and discrimination. These findings have important implications for the use of doze tests.

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