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Kunnan, Antony John.

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Modeling relationships among some test-taker characteristics and performance on tests of English as a Foreign Language.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Modeling relationships among some test-taker characteristics and performance on tests of English as a Foreign Language./
Author:	Kunnan, Antony John.
Description:	218 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-12, Section: A, page: 4248.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International52-12A.
Subject:	Education, Language and Literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9215738

Modeling relationships among some test-taker characteristics and performance on tests of English as a Foreign Language.
Kunnan, Antony John.

Modeling relationships among some test-taker characteristics and performance on tests of English as a Foreign Language. - 218 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-12, Section: A, page: 4248.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 1991.

This dissertation investigated the influence of test-taker background characteristics (TTCs) on test performance (TP) in tests of English as a foreign language (EFL) by exploring the structural relationships among these two groups of variables. The investigation was conducted in the context of constructing a theory of construct validity of EFL test performance by finding explanations for individual differences among test-takers whose TTCs influence their test performance.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018115
Education, Language and Literature.

Modeling relationships among some test-taker characteristics and performance on tests of English as a Foreign Language.
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500 $a Chair: Lyle F. Bachman.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 1991.
520 $a This dissertation investigated the influence of test-taker background characteristics (TTCs) on test performance (TP) in tests of English as a foreign language (EFL) by exploring the structural relationships among these two groups of variables. The investigation was conducted in the context of constructing a theory of construct validity of EFL test performance by finding explanations for individual differences among test-takers whose TTCs influence their test performance.
520 $a The study involved modeling data from 985 subjects from eight countries who were grouped into two native-language family groups, the Non Indo-European (NIE) group and the Indo-European (IE) group. The data for the study included responses to a 45 item-questionnaire on four TTCs: previous exposure to English in three settings (1) home country formal instruction (2) home country informal exposure, and (3) English speaking country formal instruction or informal exposure, and (4) self-monitoring language use. The measures of EFL test performance were the First Certificate in English (from the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate), the TOEFL, the SPEAK, and the Test of English Writing, (from the Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey).
520 $a Modeling of TTCs supported an uncorrelated four-factor structure based on the content of the items for both the NIE and the IE groups. Modeling of the TP factors supported a correlated four-factor structure for both the NIE and the IE groups but a higher-order factor model (as found by Bachman, Davidson, Ryan and Choi, 1989b) and a nested factor model were not successful. Modeling of both the TTCs and the TP factors together generally supported an Equal Influence Factors Model, (where the factors have equal status), and a Gardner's Intervening Factors Type Model, (where the factors are not equal in status and at least one factor is an intervening factor) for both the NIE and IE groups. The investigation suggested that this type of "nomothetic span" research is valuable for constructing a theory of construct validity of EFL test performance.
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