Item Analysis in multiple-choice listening tests from CILS certificate in Italian as a foreign language
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https://doi.org/10.5433/2237-4876.2015v18n2p449Keywords:
Italian as a FL, Assessing listening, Item analysis.Abstract
This paper analyses three multiple-choice listening tests from CILS certificate in Italian as a foreign language (level B1, summer 2009 and 2012). Item Analysis involves examining the behavior of each individual item based on statistical data on answers from a sample. It offers answers to questions such as: do the items allow for sufficient discrimination between candidates of different skill levels? Do the keys and distractors work appropriately? As well as providing an example of critical textual analysis, this study allows the reader to gain awareness of how difficult it is to design an exercise widely used in both testing and teaching centres, that is, the multiple choice question.
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