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Statistical Profiling of Academic Or...

Choi, Ick Kyu.

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Statistical Profiling of Academic Oral English Proficiency based on an ITA Screening Test.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Statistical Profiling of Academic Oral English Proficiency based on an ITA Screening Test./
作者:	Choi, Ick Kyu.
面頁冊數:	241 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-09(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-09A(E).
標題:	Education, Tests and Measurements. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3562597
ISBN:	9781303103131

Statistical Profiling of Academic Oral English Proficiency based on an ITA Screening Test.
Choi, Ick Kyu.

Statistical Profiling of Academic Oral English Proficiency based on an ITA Screening Test. - 241 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-09(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2013.

At the University of California, Los Angeles, the Test of Oral Proficiency (TOP), an internally developed oral proficiency test, is administered to international teaching assistant (ITA) candidates to ensure an appropriate level of academic oral English proficiency. Test taker performances are rated live by two raters according to four subscales. While the subscale scores have potential as valuable feedback to major stakeholders, only a weighted average of the four subscale scores are currently reported and used. This study presents a way of extracting valuable information from the TOP subscale scores. In particular, it investigates an approach to obtaining oral English proficiency profiles based on the subscale score patterns of 960 TOP test takers.

ISBN: 9781303103131Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017589
Education, Tests and Measurements.

Statistical Profiling of Academic Oral English Proficiency based on an ITA Screening Test.
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520 $a This study utilized item response theory and finite mixture modeling to investigate profiles of academic oral English proficiency in terms of the TOP subscales. A higher-order generalization of the graded response model was formulated to estimate subscale scores that accounted for structural dependencies and rater effects in the observed TOP scores. The estimated scores were clustered using a multivariate normal mixture model to yield subscale score profiles. The mixture model suggested seven profile groups and classified the TOP test takers into the seven groups. The profile groups were then interpreted and labeled based on characteristic score patterns and linguistic background shared by group members.
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