An analysis of four common Item Types used in Testing EFL Reading Comprehension  

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Perkins, Kyle

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: RELC Journal (sebagian Full Text) vol. 15 no. 2 (Dec. 1984), page 29-43.
Topik: Reading Comprehension
Fulltext: RELC 1984,VOL.15,NO.2 hal 29-43.pdf (566.43KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/REL/15 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Psychometric research has shown that different factors can affect the reliability and validity of a test. Reliability can be affected by fluctuations in the subject and in test administration and test characteristics. Invalid application of tests, inappropriate selection of content, sample truncation, and poor criterion selection can pose threats to a test’s validity. The research reported in this paper suggests that the readability level of a passage on which reading comprehension questions are based can affect empirical considerations of item analysis, reliability, and validity when the subject pool is a group of adult English as a Foreign Language students. Of the item types assessed, the true/false and multiple-choice items produced better test statistics than did the missing letters and grammar paraphrase items. Guidelines for a more tightly-controlled study are suggested.

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