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Test taker characteristics and test performance : a structural modeling approach / Antony John Kunnan.
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Kunnan, Antony John.
- Series:
- Studies in language testing ; 2.
- Studies in language testing ; 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language and languages--Ability testing.
- Language and languages.
- English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.
- English language.
- Linguistic models.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 146 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
- Summary:
- This second volume in the Studies in Language Testing series is based on research carried out for Volume 1. It investigates the influence of test-taker characteristics on test performance in tests of English as a foreign language by exploring the structural relationships among these two groups of variables. The investigation was carried out in the context of constructing a theory of construct validity of EFL performance by finding explanations for individual differences among test-takers whose characteristics influence their performance. The study involved modeling data from 985 subjects from eight countries grouped into two native-language groups, the Non Indo-European group and Indo-European group. The measures of EFL test performance were the First Certificate in English, the TOEFL, the SPEAK, and the Test of English Writing.
- Notes:
- Revised version of author's thesis (Ph. D.), UCLA, 1991.
- ISBN:
- 0521481686
- 0521484669
- OCLC:
- 34664638
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