ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE DIF IN AN ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY TEST

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ALAVI SEYED MOHAMMAD; ALI REZAEE ABASS; AMIRIAN SEYYED MOHAMMAD REZA

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Journal: Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning Year:2011 | Volume:5 | Issue:7 Page(s): 39-65

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Title

ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE DIF IN AN ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY TEST

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ALAVI SEYED MOHAMMAD | ALI REZAEE ABASS | AMIRIAN SEYYED MOHAMMAD REZA | Issue Writer Certificate

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DIFQ2

GENERALIZED MANTEL-HAENSZELQ2

LOGISTIC REGRESSIONQ2

DIF MAGNITUDEQ2

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to detect DIFferentially functioning items in the University of Tehran English Proficiency Test (UTEPT) which is a high stake test of English developed and administered by the Language Testing Centre of the University of Tehran. This paper is based on the answers of 400 test takers to the test. All participants earned a master degree either in humanities or science and engineering. To achieve the purpose of this study, the participants were divided into two equal groups. The results of GENERALIZED MANTEL-HAENSZEL indicated that out of 100 items 12 items were displaying DIF. LOGISTIC REGRESSION procedure also flagged 14 items as exhibiting DIF. Nevertheless, the associated test of effect size for LOGISTIC REGRESSION showed that none of these effect sizes were large according to the guidelines proposed by both Zumbo and Thomas (1997) and Jodoin and Gierl (2001). Therefore, it was concluded that UTEPT doesn't show significant academic discipline DIF and is equally fair to both humanities and science and engineering groups.

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ALAVI, SEYED MOHAMMAD, ALI REZAEE, ABASS, & AMIRIAN, SEYYED MOHAMMAD REZA. (2011). ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE DIF IN AN ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY TEST. JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING, 5(7), 39-65. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/160445/en

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ALAVI SEYED MOHAMMAD, ALI REZAEE ABASS, AMIRIAN SEYYED MOHAMMAD REZA. ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE DIF IN AN ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY TEST. JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING[Internet]. 2011;5(7):39-65. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/160445/en

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SEYED MOHAMMAD ALAVI, ABASS ALI REZAEE, and SEYYED MOHAMMAD REZA AMIRIAN, “ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE DIF IN AN ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY TEST,” JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING, vol. 5, no. 7, pp. 39–65, 2011, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/160445/en

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