Item Analysis

I thoroughly enjoyed studying language testing in graduate school, entering test scores and playing with the spreadsheets. As Listening/Speaking Skill Area Coordinator, I have begun in recent semesters to run item analyses on our listening tests in order to identify areas needing improvement.

I have mainly been checking item difficulty, item discrimmination, and distractor analysis, entering the data and comments onto a draft of the exam. This makes it easier for teachers to interpret the data and know how revise the problemmatic items or distractors. See a sample analysis of one of my listening tests, as well as the actual test with comments.