Quantitative Data Analysis for Language Assessment Volume I: Fundamental Techniques

✍ Scribed by Vahid Aryadoust (editor), Michelle Raquel (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 289
• Edition: 1°
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Quantitative Data Analysis for Language Assessment Volume I: Fundamental Techniques is a resource book that presents the most fundamental techniques of quantitative data analysis in the field of language assessment. Each chapter provides an accessible explanation of the selected technique, a review of language assessment studies that have used the technique, and finally, an example of an authentic study that uses the technique. Readers also get a taste of how to apply each technique through the help of supplementary online resources that include sample data sets and guided instructions. Language assessment students, test designers, and researchers should find this a unique reference as it consolidates theory and application of quantitative data analysis in language assessment.

✦ Table of Contents

Quantitative Data Analysis for Language Assessment Volume I
Contents
Figures
Tables
Preface
Editor and contributor biographies
Introduction
Section I Test development, reliability, and generalizability
1 Item analysis in language assessment
2 Univariate generalizability theory in language assessment
3 Multivariate generalizability theory in language assessment
Section II Unidimensional Rasch measurement
4 Applying Rasch measurement in language assessment
5 The Rasch measurement approach to differential item functioning (DIF) analysis in language assessment research
6 Application of the rating scale model and the partial credit model in language assessment research
7 Many-facet Rasch measurement
Section III Univariate and multivariate statistical analysis
8 Analysis of differences between groups
9 Application of ANCOVA and MANCOVA in language assessment research
10 Application of linear regression in language assessment
11 Application of exploratory factor analysis in language assessment
Index