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Meaningful Language Test Scores: Research to enhance score interpretation
Edited by Spiros Papageorgiou and Venessa F. Manna
[
Innovations in Language Learning and Assessment
1] 2023
► pp.
171
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172
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previous
Index
A
accountability
160, 161
ACTFL
5, 99
alignment
120, 124, 142, 153, 164;
See also score mapping
anchor items
81–82, 84;
See also scale anchoring
Angoff method
102–105
B
band scores
4, 122, 126, 132, 134, 139
base test
21, 23, 65–66, 71
beliefs: inaccurate
165
incommensurate
165
C
calibration
22–25, 63, 66–67
Cambridge English Scale
7
Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB)
8, 99, 106
China’s Standards of English Language Ability (CSE)
5, 142, 153
classification: false positive
2
false negative
2
into a level
126, 134
classifications
2, 134, 139
Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR)
5, 8, 36, 61, 71, 73, 75, 82–83, 87–93, 95–99, 105, 120–39, 141–147, 150–154, 163–165
common item linking design
15, 17–18, 20–21, 23–24, 30–31, 37, 39, 62–63, 76
Conditional Standard Error of Measurement (CSEM)
26, 73–75
consequences
1–2, 9, 81, 160
construct
2, 4–6, 9, 14, 17–18, 22–23, 29, 38, 61–62, 67, 72, 75, 82, 91, 143–144, 162–164, 166
congruence
5, 82, 120, 123, 126–127, 135, 139, 142
construct-irrelevant factors
56, 70
criterion measure
6, 142
test
143, 145
cut score
2, 5–6, 15, 73, 81–82, 87, 99, 101–103, 105–106, 113–115, 120, 126–127, 129–139, 142, 147, 151, 164,
cutoff scores
142, 147, 150, 153, 163;
See also cut scores
decisions: score-based
1–3, 6–7, 9, 81, 86, 93, 145, 151, 153, 160
about readiness to take a test
35–36, 58–59, 162
about vertical linking design
15, 20–22, 27, 31, 162
D
descriptors: CEFR
120, 123, 126, 128–129, 135, 163
language proficiency
4–9, 36, 81–83, 85–86, 88–93, 95–98, 109, 141, 163
performance level descriptors (PLDs)
100, 104, 107–110
E
equating
17, 20, 24–25, 27–29, 76, 132, 146–147
F
facilitator
101, 104–105, 107–114, 11–117, 143
G
Global Scale of English (Pearson)
7
I
item characteristic curves (ICCs)
68–70
item parameter
22–25, 29, 51, 63, 65–69, 71–76
J
just qualified candidate (JQC)
126, 130–131, 134
L
language proficiency framework
4, 5, 9, 93, 120, 123, 129, 134–135, 153, 163
linear transformation
21, 23, 63, 67
M
mode delivery
50, 55–56
multi-stage adaptive test (MST)
121, 141, 144
O
outlier test items
67–70, 146
P
pandemic
99, 101, 104–106, 117, 121, 125, 127, 137, 139
panelists
99–117, 124–127, 129–132,134–138, 143
p
-value
81–82, 85–88
S
scale anchoring
4–9, 80–85, 87, 89, 92–93, 163
scale indeterminacy
23, 29, 63
scaling: test
16–21, 38, 62
IRT
20–23, 25, 61, 65, 67, 76
score: concordance
6, 8–9, 141–148, 150, 152–154, 164-166
interpretation
1–9, 15, 25, 36, 80, 82–84, 91–93, 120, 134, 141–142, 152–154, 158–160, 164–166
misinterpretation
161–165
mapping
4–6, 8–9, 36, 80, 82–83, 87, 91–93, 99–105, 116, 120, 122–123, 133–139, 141–144, 150–154, 159, 163–164
numeric
4, 80–81, 85, 92, 141
standard setting
5, 8 , 73, 82, 99–108, 110–117, 120–121, 124–127, 129–139, 141–143, 154
method
102, 105- 108, 11–113, 120, 124, 126, 135
subject matter experts (SMEs)
82, 84, 88
T
test characteristic curve (TCC)
24–26, 67–69
theta (test taker ability)
26, 71–75
TOEFL: Family
2, 7–8, 35–40, 45, 49, 58–59, 61–65, 67–76, 80
Essentials
4, 8, 37, 61, 80, 120–135, 138–139, 63
iBT
2, 4, 35–38, 43, 45, 48, 53–56 66, 68, 71–72, 74–76, 80–81, 83–93, 137, 142–143, 145, 147, 153, 163
ITP
35–38, 43, 45–46, 48, 52–59, 61, 66–72, 74–76, 80, 83, 85, 141, 144–153
Junior
35–38, 40–42, 48–53, 56–59, 61, 66–71, 74–75, 80
Primary
35–38, 40–41, 43, 48–51, 59, 61, 66–68, 70, 72, 74–75, 80
Proplacer
8, 141–153, 164
TOEIC
5, 166
Reading and Listening
8, 105
Bridge
8, 105–106
V
validity: argument-based validation
2–3
procedural validity
100, 102–103, 109, 114, 117, 135
internal validity
135
external validity
135
vertical linking items
29, 35–39, 46, 48–53, 55–56, 58–59, 62–63, 65–71