A study on the reliability and validity of the Chinese test

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520635
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Prefectural University of Hiroshima
• Principal Investigator: HOU renfeng 県立広島大学, 人間文化学部, 教授 (50551298)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): MAYUYAMA Hiroaki 県立広島大学, 人間文化学部・国際文化学科, 教授 (00239162)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 中国語教育 / 中国語検定 / テスト / 妥当性 / 信頼性 / 公平性 / 古典的テスト理論

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The Chinese test is a large standard examination in which about 60000 people participate a year in Japan. So what ever did the test play a role in the accuracy and fairness? This research took the 3rd level of examination which have the most number of the examinees as the research object, went on research from the point of view of credibility and impartiality in the modern Chinese examination; based on the analysis of test papers, each question, exclusive to verify the simulation test; took some investigations and statistics of difficult vocabulary level by software and studied with questionnaire survey methods. The research results in 3 years have been published 6 papers.
Through the research, it is hard to say the Chinese test of 3rd level is stable. In order to provide a better quality of the test, whether the test itself, but also the point of view of social responsibility, I recommended that we should consider the fairness and justice to the Chinese test.

Free Research Field

中国語教育・言語テスト