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英语测试学论文

Testingreport

Part1Introduction

Thistestisdesignedbyourclassfour,andclassfivediditinNovember18th.Thetestingsubjectsare41juniors（39girlsand2boys）,whomajorintheteachingEnglishDepartmentofAnqingTeachersCollege.

Theexaminationpapercontainsonehundredmultiplechoiceandonepointachoice,sothetotalscoreis100.ThecontentoftheseitemsisfromCET4,CET6andTEM4exampaper,whichincludingmanyimportantgrammars,liketheuseofarticle,preposition,verbandsoon.Itmayseemtobeeasyinappearance,however,itcoststoomucheffortsanddevotions.Theonehundredmultiplechoicewereselectedfrom9dormitories.Eachdormitoryshouldfindout50itemsandthenthefinalitemswereselectedbystudymonitor.Thetestwastakeninabigroom205within40minutes,withtwostudymonitorsandateacherinvigilated,whichseemstobealittlenervous.Allinall,weallpassitsmoothly.Andaftertakingtheexamination,Ifelttobeateacherandastudentarenoteasy.Well,next,Iwillanalyzethistestresultstoyou.

Part2Datapresentationandanalysis

Inthispart,Iwillreportthetestscoresandprovidesomestatisticstoanalyzeseveralfactorsconcerningwithassessingthepaper.Suchasmeanscore,median,mode,range,standarddeviation,testreliability,itemdifficultylevelanditemdiscrimination.Sincethereliabilityistoodifficultandcomplicated,Iwillanalyzeitintheend.

1.BasicData

So,tobeginwith,letmeanalyzethebasicdatatoyou.Classfivedidagoodjobinthistest.Thecentraltendencyisasfollows:

Themeanscoreis56.97561,mediais55,modeis66.Thevariabilityisasfollows:

therangeis39,thestandarddeviationis10.55578andtheCVis18.5268%.Theholedataarepresentedasfollows:

BasicData

CentralTendency

Score

Variability

Score

Mean

56.97561

Max

79

Media

55

Min

40

Mode

66

Range

39

StandardDeviation

10.55578

CV

18.5268%

CV：

差异系数

Standarddeviation：

标准差

range：

全距

2.Scoredistribution

Andnextisscoredistributionofthestudent:

ScoreDistribution

ScoreGroup

Frequency

ScoreGroup

Frequency

30~40

0

60~70

11

40~50

9

70~80

5

50~60

16

80~90

0

Fromthetableandchartwecanseethatstudents’scoredistributionisapproximatelyaround40and80.Itisconcentratedandstable.Thetopscoreis79whilethelowestscoreis40.Thewholetrendisappearedaspositiveskewedness.

3.OptionDistribution

Andthenletusseethedistributionoftheoption.ThedistributionoffouroptionA,B,C,Disasfollows.Fromthechartwecanseethatthefourpartsarealmostequal.However,theoptionBisthehighestonewhiletheoptionCisthelowestone.Generallyspeaking,theoptionsinthistestarereasonableandadvisable.

OptionDistribution

Option

A

B

C

D

Frequency

24

27

22

27

Percentage

24%

27%

22%

27%

Andnextletmeanalyzetheadvanceddatatoyou.

4.ItemFacilityValue（FV）

Itemfacilityvalueisameasureoftheeaseofatestitem,whichisimportantintestanalyzing.Itisbetween0and1,thesmalleritis,themoredifficulttheitemwillbe.Thereasonablefacilityvalueisbetween0.3and0.7.

（RisreferstoNo.ofcorrectanswersNisreferstoNo.ofstudents）

Andthisexamination’severyitemfacilityvalueisasfollows:

ItemFacilityValue

FV

<0.3

0.3~0.7

>0.7

Totalnum.

11

58

31

Percentage

11%

58%

31%

FV

<0.3

0.3~0.7

>0.7

Itemnum.

7.9.10.33.37.51.55.63.75.76.80

4.5.6.8.11.12.13.17.18.19.20.21.24.26.32.34.35.36.40.43.44.46.47.49.50.53.54.56.57.59.62.64.66.67.68.70.71.72.73.77.78.79.81.82.85.86.87.88.89.90.91.93.94.95.96.98.100

1.2.3.14.15.16.22.23.25.27.28.29.30.31.38.39.41.42.45.48.52.58.60.61.65.69.74.83.92.97,99

Percentage

11%

58%

31%

Fromthetableabovewecanseethatthispaper’sFVmostlyconcentratedbetween0.3and0.7.Thepercentageis58%.Thatmeanstheitemsinthistextisadaptable.Mostoftheitemsareneithereasynordifficult.Itsuitableforourstudentshaveatest.However,therearealso11%ofitemsarebelow0.3,whichmeanstheseitemsarealittledifficulttoanswer.Letmegiveyouanexample:

7.Thewriterhisexperienceasabuildingworkerforhiswriting.

A.drewbackfrom

B.drewin

C.drewup

D.drewon

Thisitemisaimtoteststudents’verbalphrase.“draw”isthecentralword.Studentsmaybeconfusedbytheprepositionafter“draw”.Fromthiswecanseestudentsneeddomorepracticeaboutverbalphrase.Andtheseconditemisitem37.

37.ShewaspullingmylegwhenshesaidIshouldproposetoher.Theunderlinedpartmeans.

A.kiddingme

B.frighteningme

C.forcingme

D.hinting

ThisitemisintendedtotestEnglishslang.Thisitemcanteststudents'knowledgescope.Alittlebitdifficultforsomepartofthestudents.

55.Thisareaiscomparativelypeacefulexceptforafewinthedistance.

A.skirmishes

B.controversies

C.frictions

D.disturb

Item55isabouttoteststudentsvocabularyscope,whichisalsoalittledifficultforsomestudents.Tobehonest,Ican’tdothisitemeither.ThecorrectanswerisA.“skirmishes”meansasmallquarrel.

Fromtheanalysisabove,itseemsthatweallneedtostrengthenourlanguageability,enlargeourvocabularyandpaymoreattentiontoverbandverbphrases.Weneedmorepracticeafterclassandneedmoretestslikethis.

5.ItemDiscrimination

Itemdiscriminationisantheressentialfactorintestanalyzing.Itemdiscriminationreferstothe

abilityofatestitemtoseparategoodstudentsfrompoorstudentsinaparticularaspectoftheforeignlanguage.Theformulais:

Itemdiscriminationisbetween-1to+1.1istheperfectitemdiscrimination.Ingeneral,itemdiscriminationisequivalenttoorhigherthan0.4canbeacceptable.Thosearebelow0.4shouldbechangedorimproved.Andthefollowingchartisthistest’sitemdiscrimination:

ItemDiscrimination

ID

<0

0~0.4

>0.4

Itemnum.

1.48.53.62.63.79.82.100

2.3.4.5.6.8.9.10.11.12.14.15.16.17.18.19.20.23.24.25.27.28.29.30.31.32.33.34.36.37.38.39.41.42.46.47.50.52.55.56.57.58.59.60.61.64.65.67.68.69.71.72.73.74.75.76.78.80.81.83.84.85.87.88.90.91.92.95.99

13.21.26.35.40.43.44.45.49.51.54.70.77.86.89.93.94.96.97.98

Percentage

8%

72%

20%

Fromthechartwecanseethatthereare20%itemsitemdiscriminationisacceptable.Andthereare8%itemsisunderzero.Itisunreasonable,Ithinktheseitemsneedtochangeandimprove.So,bytheway,letmeanalyzethisindetail,letseesomeitems,firstisitem69.

63.Accordingtoofficialstatistics,retailsalesinChinarose10%and12.2%inthefirstandthesecondquarter____thisyear.

A.accordingly

B.correspondingly

C.respectively

D.individually

ThecorrectanswerisB.Andstudents’answersareasfollows:

Group

No.ofCorrectAnswers

FacilityValue（FV）

Top

0

-0.53846

Bottom

7

Wecanseefromthechartthatnoneofthestudentsthatinthetopgroupgotthecorrectanswer.Butonthecontrary,thereare7studentsinbottomgroupgotthecorrectanswer,sotheitemdiscriminationisunderzero.Therefore,thisitem’sdiscriminationistoolow.

Whythiskindofphenomenonwasappeared?

Maybestudentsintopgrouparehesitatedtomakedecisionortheymayhastytomakeachoice,whichledtothemistake.Thisitemisintendedtotestthesemanticofthesentence.Therefore,studentsneedtoimprovetheirlanguagesense.

Andnext,Iwillgiveanantherexample.Seetheitem40.

40.Whichofthefollowingitalicizedpartsisusedasanobject?

A.Whatdoyouthinkhashappenedtoher?

B.Whodoyouthinkthevisitingprofessoris?

C.Howmuchdoyouthinkheearnseverymonth?

D.Howquicklywouldyousayhewouldcome?

Thisitemisaimtoteststudents’understandingofsentencestructureandthecorrectanswerisC.Students’answersareasfollows:

Group

No.ofCorrectAnswers

FacilityValue（FV）

Top

13

0.769231

Bottom

3

Wecanseefromthechartthatthereare13studentsthatinthetopgroupgotthecorrectanswer.Andonthecontrary,thereareonly3studentsinbottomgroupgotthecorrectanswer,sothisitem’sdiscriminationishigherthan0.4whichisreasonable.Therefore,wecansaythatthisitemhaveahighitemdiscriminationwhichshouldbepraiseandadaptable.

Thenthenextitem23

23."He's no more able to read Japanese than I am." The sentence meansthat.

A. neither he nor I am able to read Japanese.

B. I can read Japanese but he can't. 

C. my Japanese is better than him.　　

D. both he and I are able to read Japanese.

Thisitem’sanswerisA.Andstudents’answersareasfollows:

Group

No.ofCorrectAnswers

FacilityValue（FV）

Top

11

0

Bottom

11

Thisitemtestthemeaningofthephrase“nomore…than”.ThisisanimportantphraseinEnglishlearning.Andwecanseefromthechartthatbothtopgroupstudentsandbottomgroupstudentshavethesamenumberofcorrectanswer.Sotheitemdiscriminationis0,whichisnotagoodone.

Andthenextitem20isthesame.ThecorrectanswerisC.

20.Time,heshallgoouting.

A.permitted

B.permits

C.permitting

D.wouldpermit

Fromthiswecansee,thiskindofitemsisneithereasynordifficult,theyallhaveverylowitemdiscrimination.Buttheitemitselfisdeservedtohaveatest.TheyarealltypicalgrammarwhichisessentialpartinEnglishlearning.

6.Reliability

Reliabilityreferstotheconsistencyofthescoresfromatest.Letmeusespilthalfreliabilitytoanalyze:

Rankordercorrelation,theformulais:

Forthis,firstcalculatetherankordercorrelationbetweentheoddandheevenhalvesofthetest,andthenuse