Item Difficulty Analysis of English Vocabulary Questions

Yuni Susanti, Hitoshi Nishikawa, Takenobu Tokunaga, Obari Hiroyuki

2016

Abstract

This study investigates the relations between several factors of question items in English vocabulary tests and the corresponding item difficulty. Designing the item difficulty of a test impacts the quality of the test itself. Our goal is suggesting a way to control the item difficulty of questions generated by computers. To achieve this goal we conducted correlation and regression analyses on several potential factors of question items and their item difficulty obtained through experiments. The analyses revealed that several item factors correlated with the item difficulty, and up to 59% of the item difficulty can be explained by a combination of item factors.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Susanti Y., Nishikawa H., Tokunaga T. and Hiroyuki O. (2016). Item Difficulty Analysis of English Vocabulary Questions . In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-179-3, pages 267-274. DOI: 10.5220/0005775502670274

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu16,
author={Yuni Susanti and Hitoshi Nishikawa and Takenobu Tokunaga and Obari Hiroyuki},
title={Item Difficulty Analysis of English Vocabulary Questions},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2016},
pages={267-274},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005775502670274},
isbn={978-989-758-179-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - Item Difficulty Analysis of English Vocabulary Questions
SN - 978-989-758-179-3
AU - Susanti Y.
AU - Nishikawa H.
AU - Tokunaga T.
AU - Hiroyuki O.
PY - 2016
SP - 267
EP - 274
DO - 10.5220/0005775502670274