日本言語テスト学会誌
Online ISSN : 2189-9746
Print ISSN : 2189-5341
ISSN-L : 2189-5341
Analyzing Explicit and Implicit Reading Questions in a Term-Exam: A Case Study
Yusuke HASEGAWA
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2017 年 20 巻 p. 57-75

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This research explores how teachers can validate True/False questions in a foreign language reading term-exam. Two English teachers from Japanese junior and senior high schools and six Japanese graduate students majoring in Foreign Language Education participated in a case study (Study 1). The eight participants and the author of this article independently classified five reading questions into text-explicit and text-implicit types using two criteria. The first criterion was to determine whether the question requires students to make inferences to understand implicit information; the second criterion was to determine whether test-takers need to read only one sentence or more than one sentence to answer the question correctly. Although the participants were not informed that the two criteria were designed for the same purpose (i.e., distinguishing text-explicit and -implicit items), the final results of item classification using the two criteria were identical, with a high interrater reliability. A further case study was conducted using the same five questions (Study 2). These reading questions were given to 80 undergraduate students as a part of a term-exam. The term-exam was an achievement test that was designed to measure how well the examinees understood what they had learned; the students had already read the text during a previous lesson, but they had never solved the five questions before. On average, the questions that had been classified as text-implicit items were more difficult for the students than the text-explicit questions. The test was composed of both easy and difficult items, as intended by the test creator. The validity, reliability, and practicability of the taxonomy of question types proposed in this research were further discussed based on the data.

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