First Language of Examinees and Its Relationship to Equating. Research Report. ETS RR-09-05

Autor/inn/en	Liang, Longjuan; Dorans, Neil J.; Sinharay, Sandip
Institution	Educational Testing Service
Titel	First Language of Examinees and Its Relationship to Equating. Research Report. ETS RR-09-05
Quelle	(2009), (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Equated Scores; English (Second Language); Reading Tests; Mathematics Tests; Language Proficiency; Test Bias; Measurement; College Entrance Examinations; High School Students; National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test; Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test; SAT (College Admission Test) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Lesetest; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Testkritik; Messverfahren; Aufnahmeprüfung; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Scholarship; Scholarships; Assessment; Stipendium; Eignungstest; Eignungsprüfung; Hochschulzulassung
Abstract	To ensure fairness, it is important to better understand the relationship of language proficiency with the standard procedures of psychometric analysis. This paper examines how equating results are affected by an increase in the proportion of examinees who report that English is not their first language, using the analysis samples for a large-scale reading and mathematics test. The results indicate that equating is not affected much by an increase in the proportion of those examinees. (Contains 9 tables and 6 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10