Open AccessFIRST LANGUAGE OF EXAMINEES AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO EQUATING
Author(s) -
Liang Longjuan,
Dorans Neil J.,
Sinharay Sandip
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
ets research report series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.235
H-Index - 5
ISSN - 2330-8516
DOI - 10.1002/j.2333-8504.2009.tb02162.x
Subject(s) - equating , psychology , item response theory , item analysis , language proficiency , reading (process) , test (biology) , english language , scale (ratio) , statistics , mathematics education , psychometrics , mathematics , developmental psychology , linguistics , rasch model , geography , paleontology , philosophy , cartography , biology
To ensure fairness, it is important to better understand the relationship of language proficiency with the standard procedures of psychometric analysis. This paper examines how equating results are affected by an increase in the proportion of examinees who report that English is not their first language, using the analysis samples for a large‐scale reading and mathematics test. The results indicate that equating is not affected much by an increase in the proportion of those examinees.