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Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Symposium (PROMS) 2012 Conference Proceeding

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Quan Zhang

    1. , Faculty of Foreign Studies, University of Jiaxing, Jiaxing, China, People's Republic

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  2. Hong Yang

    1. , Faculty of Foreign Studies, University of Jiaxing, Jiaxing, China, People's Republic

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Table of contents (17 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. On the Potential for Improved Measurement in the Human and Social Sciences

    • William P. Fisher Jr., A. Jackson Stenner
    Pages 1-11

  3. A Pilot Study Based on Rasch into the Appropriateness of the TOEIC Bridge Test for Chinese Students: Status Quo and Prospect

    • Quan Zhang, Mingzhu Miao, Chunyan Zhu, Eng Han Tan
    Pages 13-20

  4. Validating the Model of Predictors of Academic Self-Handicapping Behavior

    • Hafsa Mzee Mwita, Mohamad Sahari Nordin, Mohd Burhan Ibrahim
    Pages 21-42

  5. Implementing Formative Assessment in the Translation Course for English Majors—Taking Beijing Sport University as an Example

    • Siqi Lv
    Pages 43-56

  6. Further Implementation of User Defined Fit Statistics

    • Daniel Urbach
    Pages 57-74

  7. Investigating the Consequences of the Application of Formative Evaluation to Reading-Writing Model

    • Hong Yang, Hong Zhou, Yan Zhao
    Pages 75-92

  8. Learning by Assessing in an EFL Writing Class

    • Trevor A. Holster, William R. Pellowe, J. Lake, Aaron Hahn
    Pages 93-108

  9. Construction and Evaluation of an Item Bank for an Introductory Statistics Class: A Pilot Study

    • Sieh-Hwa Lin, Pei-Jung Hsieh, Li-Chuan Wu
    Pages 109-116

  10. The Impact of Unobserved Extreme Categories on Item and Person Estimates – A Simulation Study

    • Edward Feng Li
    Pages 117-128

  11. Assessment Report on Reading Literacy in Guangxi Ethnic Minority Region—Based on PIRLS 2006 Test Analysis

    • Jing Yu, Dehong Luo
    Pages 129-144

  12. Extended Mantel-Haenszel Procedure for DIF Detection – A Note on Its Implementation in ACER ConQuest

    • Xiaoxun Sun
    Pages 145-153

  13. A Research on the Effectiveness of DynEd Computer-Assisted English Language Learning – Taking Ningbo Polytechnic as an Example

    • Jingru Huang, Baixiang Wu
    Pages 155-177

  14. Foreign Language Aptitude Components and Different Levels of Foreign Language Proficiency Among Chinese English Majors

    • Lanrong Li
    Pages 179-196

  15. Motivation and Arabic Learning Achievement: A Comparative Study Between Two Types of Islamic Schools in Gansu, China

    • Juping Qiao, Kassim Noor Lide Abu, Badrasawi Kamal
    Pages 197-217

  16. Rasch-Based Analysis of Item and Person Fit – A Language Testing Practice in Jiaxing University China

    • Guoxiong He, Huifeng Mu
    Pages 219-228

  17. The Contribution of Lower-Level Processing to Foreign Language Reading Comprehension with Chinese EFL Learners

    • Feifei Han
    Pages 229-239

  18. Comparing Students’ Citizenship Concepts with Likert-Scale

    • Joseph Chow
    Pages 241-252

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 253-358
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About this book

Entrusted by the Board of Management of the Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Symposium (PROMS), PROMS2012 is held in Jiaxing, China from August 6-9, 2012. Over the past years, PROMS has been hosted in many parts of the Pacific Rim, in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Tokyo, which has greatly promoted the research of and contributed to the development of Rasch Model in one way or another. As early as in 1980s, the ideas and concepts regarding IRT was first introduced into China by Prof. Gui Shichun, my Ph.D supervisor, and it is Prof. Gui who first conducted with great success the ten-year long (1990-1999) Equating Project for Matriculation English Test (MET) in China. MET is the most influential entrance examination for higher education administered annually to over 3.3 million candidates then. The Equating Project won recognition by Charles Alderson and other foreign counterparts during 1990s. Academically, those were Good Old Days for Chinese testing experts and psychometricians. Then for certain reasons, the equating practice abruptly discontinued. Therefore, in China nowadays, the application of IRT-based software like BILOG, Parscale, Iteman 4 and others to real testing problem solving is confined to an extremely small 'band' of people. In this sense, PROMS2012 meets an important need in that it provides an excellent introduction of IRT and its application. And anyone who is seriously interested in research and development in the field of psychometrics or language testing will find such a symposium and related workshops to be an excellent source of information about the application of Rasch Model. PROMS2012 focuses on recent advances in objective measurement and provides an international forum on both the latest research in using Rasch measurement and non-Rasch practice.

Editors and Affiliations

  • , Faculty of Foreign Studies, University of Jiaxing, Jiaxing, China, People's Republic

    Quan Zhang, Hong Yang

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Symposium (PROMS) 2012 Conference Proceeding

  • Editors: Quan Zhang, Hong Yang

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37592-7

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-37591-0Published: 27 June 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-37592-7Published: 13 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 358

  • Number of Illustrations: 37 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Education, general, Linguistics, general

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