Analyzing and Comparing Reading Stimulus Materials across the "TOEFL"® Family of Assessments. "TOEFL iBT"® Research Report. TOEFL iBT-26. ETS Research Report No. RR-15-08

Autor/inn/en	Chen, Jing; Sheehan, Kathleen M.
Titel	Analyzing and Comparing Reading Stimulus Materials across the "TOEFL"® Family of Assessments. "TOEFL iBT"® Research Report. TOEFL iBT-26. ETS Research Report No. RR-15-08
Quelle	In: ETS Research Report Series, (2015), (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2330-8516
Schlagwörter	Language Tests; Second Language Learning; English (Second Language); Reading Comprehension; Difficulty Level; Computer Software; Text Structure; Scores; Guidelines; Test Validity; Comparative Analysis; Reading Tests; Common Core State Standards; Statistical Analysis; Test Format; Computer Assisted Testing; Test of English as a Foreign Language + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Language test; Sprachtest; Zweitsprachenerwerb; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Leseverstehen; Schwierigkeitsgrad; Textstruktur; Richtlinien; Testvalidität; Lesetest; Common core curriculum; Curriculum; Kerncurriculum; Statistische Analyse; Testentwicklung
Abstract	The "TOEFL"® family of assessments includes the "TOEFL"® Primary"™, "TOEFL Junior"®, and "TOEFL iBT"® tests. The linguistic complexity of stimulus passages in the reading sections of the TOEFL family of assessments is expected to differ across the test levels. This study evaluates the linguistic complexity of each passage in a corpus of TOEFL stimulus passages. The analysis was conducted using the "TextEvaluator"®, a comprehensive text analysis system developed at Educational Testing Service (ETS). For each TOEFL reading passage, TextEvaluator provides an overall complexity score and 8 component scores that measure text complexity in specific domains. The results suggest that the overall complexity scores of the reading passages selected for use at different test levels are significantly different. According to the analysis of the component scores, the TOEFL Primary, TOEFL Junior, and TOEFL iBT passages are similar with respect to some aspects of text variation and distinct with respect to others. Score ranges based on the distributions of the overall complexity scores and the distributions of the component scores of all the passages at each test level can be used as guidelines to develop or select new passages. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01