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Quantitative Data Analysis for Language Assessment Volume I: Fundamental Techniques is a resource book that presents the most fundamental techniques of quantitative data analysis in the field of language assessment. Each chapter provides an accessible explanation of the selected technique, a review of language assessment studies that have used the technique, and finally, an example of an authentic study that uses the technique. Readers also get a taste of how to apply each technique through the help of supplementary online resources that include sample data sets and guided instructions. Language assessment students, test designers, and researchers should find this a unique reference as it consolidates theory and application of quantitative data analysis in language assessment.
Introduction
Test development, reliability, and generalizability
Item analysis in language assessment
Univariate generalizability theory in language assessment
Multivariate generalizability theory in language assessment
Unidimensional Rasch measurement
Applying Rasch measurement in language assessment: unidimensionality and local independence
The Rasch measurement approach to differential item functioning (DIF) analysis in language assessment research
Application of the rating scale model and the partial credit model in language assessment research
Many-facet Rasch measurement: implications for rater-mediated language assessment
Univariate and multivariate statistical analysis
Analysis of differences between groups: the t-test and the analysis of variance (ANOVA) in language assessment
Application of ANCOVA and MANCOVA in language assessment research
Application of linear regression in language assessment
Application of exploratory factor analysis in language assessment