A study on cloze test items and distractors with high discriminative power

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24652125
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Hiroshima City University
• Principal Investigator: Watanabe Tomoe 広島市立大学, 国際学部, 教授 (80275396)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): AOKI Nobuyuki 広島市立大学, 国際学部, 教授 (80202472)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: クローズテスト / 英語教育 / 錯乱肢 / 弁別力

Outline of Final Research Achievements

For selected 20 English passages, cloze test items were selected based on the rational method. For each test item, a set of attributes were allocated, including vocabulary difficulty, amount of information required to answer, location of information required to answer. Attributes of distractors are also specified from the standpoint of semantic interchangeability, syntactic interchangeability and similarity to the correct answer (e.g., synonym, antonym, non-related).

Free Research Field

英語教育学