A Study of the Effects of Variation of Short-Term Memory Load, Reading Response Length, and Processing Hierarchy on TOEFL Listening Comprehension Item Performance TOEFL ESL
- Author(s):
- Henning, Grant
- Publication Year:
- 1990
- Report Number:
- RR-90-18
- Source:
- ETS Research Report
- Document Type:
- Report
- Page Count:
- 72
- Subject/Key Words:
- Memory, Performance Factors, Reading Comprehension, Test Length, Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)
Abstract
Also, items with shortened options showed greater convergent and discriminant validity across levels of difficulty than did items with unshortened options. And, there was a near-significant tendency for items with shortened options to exhibit better discrimination than items with unshortened options, when concomitant influences were controlled.
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