Appendix B of _Investigating student response patterns on a multiple-choice grammar and reading proficiency test_

Investigating student response patterns in a multiple-choice grammar and reading proficiency test

Appendix B: Supplementary Tables

Table 1. Chi-square measures for the grammar test in terms of descending probablity

Test Item #	Chi Square Value	Degrees of Freedom	Probability of random occurance
4	0.139	2	0.932949
25	0.156	2	0.9249
15	0.205	2	0.902751
5	0.216	2	0.897678
10	0.236	2	0.888856
18	0.283	2	0.867916
23	0.318	2	0.852939
24	0.965	2	0.617235
14	1.033	2	0.596642
28	1.088	2	0.580526
27	1.367	2	0.504811
19	1.377	2	0.502252
30	1.806	2	0.405421
26	1.938	2	0.379514
11	1.942	2	0.37872
2	2.069	2	0.355323
6	2.332	2	0.311541
3	2.416	2	0.298862
13	2.947	2	0.229114
1	3.014	2	0.221526
21	3.081	2	0.214264
21	3.081	2	0.214264
20	3.126	2	0.20952
17	3.17	2	0.204998
22	3.32	2	0.190103
12	4.413	2	0.110062
16	5.193	2	0.074536
8	5.548	2	0.062408
29	5.638	2	0.059654
9	6.034	2	0.048955
7	7.547	2	0.022971

Table 2. Fit Statistics of the grammar test items

Negative Fits		Positive Fits
Test Item #	Fit Statistic	Test Item #	Fit Statistic
8	-1.069	27	0.156
16	-0.905	18	0.171
24	-0.471	3	0.334
26	-0.44	30	0.42
10	-0.353	4	0.518
22	-0.321	25	0.565
12	-0.319	14	0.643
6	-0.299	5	0.663
11	-0.257	19	0.746
20	-0.245	15	0.807
9	-0.235	23	0.87
7	-0.118	1	0.969
		21	1.2
		29	1.204
		28	1.369
		13	1.91
		2	1.918
		17	1.967

Table 3. Location order of test items in terms of difficulty level

Negative Values		Positive Values
Test Item #	Location order	Test Item #	Location order
20	-2.209	15	0.068
3	-1.375	4	0.094
10	-1.331	2	0.101
22	-1.143	8	0.107
16	-0.99	18	0.29
29	-0.794	28	0.294
9	-0.673	7	0.301
1	-0.666	13	0.337
19	-0.256	24	0.371
6	-0.249	26	0.435
25	-0.247	17	0.578
12	-0.085	5	0.583
14	-0.038	23	0.63
		21	1.104
		27	1.427
		30	1.468
		11	1.869

Appendix B

2005 Pan SIG-Proceedings: Topic Index

Complete Pan SIG-Proceedings: Topic Index

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