Author(s)

Qishan Liao ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Faculty of Education and Human Development, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, 999077, China

Corresponding Author

Qishan Liao

ABSTRACT

This paper mainly focuses on the design and analysis of English test papers which can better understand primary students' level of learning ability and test quality to promote students’ English learning and teachers' teaching quality. TOS (Table of Specifications) and the theory of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives are the guidance to the design of the test paper. For the test analysis part, Winsteps Rasch Model is applied to analyze the reliability of items and students, difficulty factor, and level of discrimination. As a result, it can be employed to precisely identify the questions and students based on their level of achievement, revealing the actual level of the learners' ability regardless of the small number of samples.

KEYWORDS

Test design and analysis, bloom taxonomy, rasch analysis, learning ability

CITE THIS PAPER

Qishan Liao, Study on Students' Learning Ability from the Design and Analysis of Primary English Test Paper. Curriculum and Teaching Methodology (2023) Vol. 6: 6-12. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/curtm.2023.061102.

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