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Title: Applying Item Response Theory in Language Test Item Bank Building

Applying Item Response Theory in Language Test Item Bank Building

by Gábor Szabó (Author)
©2008 Monographs 194 Pages
Linguistics
Series: Language Testing and Evaluation, Volume 10

Summary

Item Response Theory, though it has become a widely recognized tool in language testing research, is still not used frequently in practical language assessment projects. This book intends to provide a theoretical overview as well as to give practical guidance concerning the application of IRT in item bank building in a language testing context by presenting a particular project in a higher education setting.

Details

Pages
194
Year
2008
ISBN (PDF)
9783653011678
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631568514
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-01167-8
Language
English
Publication date
2012 (February)
Keywords
Item banking Fremdsprachenlernen Sprachtest Language testing Item Response Theory Rasch-model Probabilistische Testtheorie
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2008. 194 pp., num. tables and graphs

Biographical notes

Gábor Szabó (Author)

The Author: Gábor Szabó is Assistant Professor at the Department of English Applied Linguistics at the University of Pécs (Hungary). He has been advisor to the ECL examination system and has been involved in various other national and international language assessment projects. He is currently member of the Hungarian Accreditation Board for Foreign Language Examinations.

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