Developing individualized feedback for listening assessment: Combining standard setting and cognitive diagnostic assessment approaches

• Published in: Language testing Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 90 - 116
• Main Authors: Min, Shangchao, He, Lianzhen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.01.2022; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Classification; Cognition; Cognitive Ability; College Students; Critical discourse analysis; Diagnostic Tests; English (Second Language); English as a second language instruction; English as a second language tests; English Language Learners; English proficiency; Feedback; Feedback (Response); Field Tests; Language assessment; Language Proficiency; Language Tests; Listening Comprehension Tests; Mastery Learning; Oral Language; Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning; Standard Setting; Standard Setting (Scoring); individualized feedback; score report; listening assessment; standard setting; Cognitive diagnosis

In this study, we present the development of individualized feedback for a large-scale listening assessment by combining standard setting and cognitive diagnostic assessment (CDA) approaches. We used the performance data from 3,358 students’ item-level responses to a field test of a national EFL tes...