The production of a conventional and computer adaptive online-self marking meaning-recall levels tests
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20K00792
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 02100:Foreign language education-related
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| Research Institution | Momoyama Gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
McLean Stuart 桃山学院大学, 経営学部, 准教授 (10624794)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
スチュワート ジェフリー 東京理科大学, 理学部第一部教養学科, 准教授 (40536306)
水本 篤 関西大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (80454768)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
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| Keywords | vocabulary / testing / Vocabulary / Testing / CAT / Adaptive |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
Vocabulary knowledge contributes to reading (Hu & Nation, 2000), listening (Van Zeeland & Schmitt, 2013), writing (Laufer & Nation, 1995), and speaking (Saito, Webb, Trofimovich, & Isaacs, 2016). When matching learners with lexically appropriate reading materials it is necessary to establish which 1,000- or 500-word band learners can comprehend 98% of. This project’s goal is to produce an easy to use self- marking meaning-recall (L2 to L1) Conventional Online Levels Test (COLT) and a Computer Adaptive Tests (CAT) version for learners, teachers and researchers, which provide immediate feedback
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research has resulted in the production of an online Written-receptive Meaning-Recall convectional Vocabulary Levels Test, an online Spoken-receptive (Aural) Meaning-recall Test, and an online Written-receptive Meaning-Recall Computer Adaptive Vocabulary Levels Test. These tests are freely available to the public at https://vocableveltest.org/. Test responses are marked against a back of responses that are added to through feedback from test administrators on the accuracy of the automatically marked responses. After responses are marked against the bank of responses test administrators are shown which response types are marked as correct and incorrect. Test administrators are then able to override the marking of test-taker responses against the automatic marking against the bank of growing valid responses. If a test administrator overrides (disagrees with how a response has been marked) the automatic marking then this is noted and is used to improve the automatic answer bank.
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
The production of two (one written of aural) online receptive meaning-Recall convectional Vocabulary Levels Test, and an online Written-receptive Meaning-Recall Computer Adaptive Vocabulary Levels Test. 705 teachers have registers to use the site. Tens of thousands of students have completed tests.
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