Qualifying the National Center Test and its Visualization of inter-item relationships

• Project/Area Number: 24730565
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Educational psychology
• Research Institution: The National Center for University Entrance Examinations
• Principal Investigator: KOJIRO Shojima 独立行政法人大学入試センター, 研究開発部, 准教授 (50360706)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
• Keywords: センター試験 / 潜在ランク理論 / テスト理論 / 信頼性 / 妥当性 / 大学入試センター / 非対称多次元尺度法 / 非対称フォン・ミーゼス尺度法 / 段階評価 / Can-Do

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study, we qualified the National Center Test (NCT) by using the Latent Rank Theory. We also visualized the inter-item dependency relationships of the NCT by using Asymmetric von Mises Scaling.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 仮説検定，効果量，そして適合度指標－SEMを用いた分散分析の理解－ (2014)
  • Author(s): 荘島宏二郎
  • Journal Title: 教育心理学年報 Volume: 53 Pages: 147-155
  • NAID: 130004873254
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Journal Article] Changes in Japanese EFL learners’ proficiency: An application of Latent Rank Theory (2014)
  • Author(s): Sugino, N., Shojima, K., Ohba, H., Yamakawa, K., Shimizu, Y., & Nakano, M.
  • Journal Title: Analysis and modeling of complex data in Behavioural and Social Sciences Volume: 1 Pages: 263-271
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Changes in Japanese EFL learners’ proficiency: An application of latent rank theory (2014)
  • Author(s): Sugino, N., Shojima, K., Ohba, H., Yamakawa, K., Shimizu, Y., & Nakano, M.
  • Journal Title: Analysis and Modeling of Complex Data in Behavioural and Social Sciences Volume: 1
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 仮説検定，効果量，そして適合度指標―SEMを用いた分散分析の理解― (2014)
  • Author(s): 荘島宏二郎
  • Journal Title: 教育心理学年報 Volume: 53
  • NAID: 130004873254
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Characterizing individual learners on an empirically-developed can-do system: An application of latent rank theory. (2012)
  • Author(s): Sugino, N., Yamakawa, K., Ohba, H., Shojima, K., Shimizu, Y., & Nakano, M.
  • Journal Title: Perspectives on Individual Characteristics and Foreign Language Education. Volume: 1 Pages: 131-149
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 項目反応理論による学力テストの経年比較－京都府中学校学力診断テストの等化－ (2012)
  • Author(s): 松宮 功・永砂正弘・荘島宏二郎
  • Journal Title: 日本数学教育学会誌 Volume: 94 Pages: 12-21
  • NAID: 110009518186
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] An application of latent rank theory in developing a can-do chart of Japanese EFL leaners. (2012)
  • Author(s): Sugino, N. & Shojima, K.
  • Journal Title: 英語教育学研究 Volume: 3 Pages: 21-30
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] 媒介分析とマルチレベルSEMとメタ分析についてじっくり聞く (2014)
  • Author(s): 荘島宏二郎・久保沙織・野崎優樹・浅野良輔・岡田涼・宇佐美慧
  • Organizer: 第56回日本教育心理学会
  • Place of Presentation: 神戸国際会議場、神戸市、兵庫県
  • Year and Date: 2014-11-07 – 2014-11-09
• [Presentation] イプサティブ項目とレパートリグリッド法と信頼区間の話をじっくり聞く (2014)
  • Author(s): 荘島宏二郎・登藤直弥・阿部ひと美・井関龍太・尾碕幸謙・谷伊織
  • Organizer: 第78回日本心理学会
  • Place of Presentation: 同志社大学、京都市、京都府
  • Year and Date: 2014-09-10 – 2014-09-12
• [Presentation] 多次元IRTを用いた性格特性尺度分析に関する考察 (2014)
  • Author(s): 酒匂志野・今城志保・ワンチェン・佐藤美智・小方真・北原瑞穂・荘島宏二郎
  • Organizer: 第12回日本テスト学会
  • Place of Presentation: 帝京大学八王子キャンパス、八王子市、東京都
  • Year and Date: 2014-08-30 – 2014-08-31
• [Presentation] Explication of linguistic underpinnings of ability descriptors by employing Latent Rank Theory (2014)
  • Author(s): Sugino, N., Shimizu, Y., Ohba, H., Yamakawa, K., Nakano, M. and Shojima, K.
  • Organizer: AILA 2014
  • Place of Presentation: Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, Australia
  • Year and Date: 2014-08-10 – 2014-08-15
• [Presentation] An asymmetrical network model of the Japanese EFL learner’s mental lexicon (2014)
  • Author(s): Aotani, N., Sugino, N., Fraser, S., Koga, Y. and Shojima, K.
  • Organizer: AILA 2014
  • Place of Presentation: Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, Australia
  • Year and Date: 2014-08-10 – 2014-08-15
• [Presentation] Calibration of national center test items against the common European framework of reference for languages (2013)
  • Author(s): Sugino, N., Nakano, M., Shimizu, Y., Shojima, K., Yamakawa, K., & Ohba, H.
  • Organizer: Pan-pacific Association of Applied Linguistics (PAAL)
  • Place of Presentation: 亜洲大学校, 韓国
• [Presentation] Capturing and representing asymmetries in Japanese EFL learners’ mental lexicon (2013)
  • Author(s): Sugino, N., Fraser, S., Aotani, N., Shojima, K., and Koga, Y.
  • Organizer: Vocab@Vic
  • Place of Presentation: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
• [Presentation] Structural space scaling (2013)
  • Author(s): Shojima, K.
  • Organizer: 日本行動計量学会
  • Place of Presentation: 東邦大学
• [Presentation] 潜在ランク理論－段階評価のためのテスト標準化理論 (2013)
  • Author(s): 荘島宏二郎
  • Organizer: 日本テスト学会
  • Place of Presentation: 九州大学
• [Presentation] Analysis of double bipartite data by asymmetric von Mises scaling. (2012)
  • Author(s): Shojima, K.
  • Organizer: Joint Meeting of the Japanese Classification Society (JCS) and the Italian Classification and Data Analysis Group (CLADAG) 2012
  • Place of Presentation: Anacapri, Italy
• [Presentation] Analysis of National Center Test for University Admissions by Latent Rank Theory. (2012)
  • Author(s): Shojima, K.
  • Organizer: Joint Meeting of the Japanese Classification Society (JCS) and the Italian Classification and Data Analysis Group (CLADAG) 2012
  • Place of Presentation: Anacapri, Italy
• [Presentation] Exametrika: Freeware for item analysis. (2012)
  • Author(s): Shojima, K.
  • Organizer: International Association for Computerized Adaptive Testing 2012
  • Place of Presentation: Sydney, Australia
• [Presentation] Revolving distribution and its application to multidimensional scaling (2012)
  • Author(s): Shojima, K.
  • Organizer: 第40回 日本行動計量学会
  • Place of Presentation: 新潟県立大学
• [Presentation] データからテストと人を評価する：潜在ランク理論と非対称多次元尺度法 (2012)
  • Author(s): 荘島宏二郎
  • Organizer: 外国語教育メディア学会第52回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 甲南大学
  • Invited
• [Book] 心理学のための統計学入門－ココロのデータ分析－ (2014)
  • Author(s): 川端一光・荘島宏二郎
  • Total Pages: 128
  • Publisher: 誠信書房
• [Book] パーソナリティ心理学のための統計学－構造方程式モデリング－ (2014)
  • Author(s): 尾崎幸謙・荘島宏二郎
  • Total Pages: 126
  • Publisher: 誠信書房
• [Remarks] 心理学のための統計学
  • URL: http://www.rd.dnc.ac.jp/~shojima/psychometrics/
• [Remarks] 潜在ランク理論
  • URL: http://www.rd.dnc.ac.jp/~shojima/ntt/index.htm
• [Remarks] エグザメトリカ
  • URL: http://www.rd.dnc.ac.jp/~shojima/exmk/index.htm
• [Remarks] Latent Rank Theory
  • URL: http://www.rd.dnc.ac.jp/~shojima/ntt/index.htm
• [Remarks] Asymmetric Triangulation Scaling
  • URL: http://www.rd.dnc.ac.jp/~shojima/ats/index.htm
• [Remarks] Asymmetric von Mises Scaling
  • URL: http://www.rd.dnc.ac.jp/~shojima/ams/index.htm
• [Remarks] Exametrika
  • URL: http://www.rd.dnc.ac.jp/~shojima/exmk/index.htm
• [Remarks] Asymmetrika
  • URL: http://www.rd.dnc.ac.jp/~shojima/asmk/index.htm
• [Remarks] Latent Rank Theory
  • URL: http://www.rd.dnc.ac.jp/~shojima/ntt/index.htm
• [Remarks] Exametrika
  • URL: http://www.rd.dnc.ac.jp/~shojima/exmk/index.htm