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90Validation of School-Based College English Listening Test: Evaluating Construct Validity Using the 3PL Item Response Theory Model

Authors
Meng Lyu1, *
1Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China
*Corresponding author. Email: mariannelyu@stu.xjtu.edu.cn
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Meng Lyu
Available Online 30 June 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-172-2_228How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Item Response Theory; Construct validity; Listening test
Abstract

More and more universities are implementing school-based English exams designed and administered by their professors, yet there is limited research on the quality and reliability of school-based exams. This study aims to evaluate the validity of the school-based college English listening test items according to the three-parameter logistic model in the Item Response Theory (IRT). The test consisted of 25 items, and 944 male and female college students from a university in Western China were selected in a simple random manner in this study. The statistical program (SPSS) and the (Bilog-mg3) program were used to analyze the responses of these participants. In this research, the validity of the school-based college English listening test was assessed on two levels: whether the items conformed to the questioning norms and whether they effectively represented the construct validity. The results showed that this set of listening items were high in difficulty, ideal in differentiation, high in guessing, reasonable in information content, and with a certain degree of constructive validity, which could accurately reflect the actual listening proficiency of the intermediate and high-level test takers.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2023 4th International Conference on Education, Knowledge and Information Management (ICEKIM 2023)
Series
Atlantis Highlights in Computer Sciences
Publication Date
30 June 2023
ISBN
10.2991/978-94-6463-172-2_228
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2589-4900
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10.2991/978-94-6463-172-2_228How to use a DOI?
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© 2023 The Author(s)
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