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-3 items Level 2
in a row
Level 1
15 minutes -3 items
in a row
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Online Adaptive Vocabulary
Test (OAVT)
• the first stage of a web-based adaptive
English placement test system
• vocabulary grammar / sentence
structure listening reading
comprehension
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Classification of word list
• Collins COBUILD English Dictionary for
Advanced Learners (2001): frequency
bands (◆◆◆◆◆ ◆)
• Macmillan English Dictionary for
Advanced Learners of American English
(2002): the most frequent words in
English (★★★ ★)
• Longman Dictionary of Contemporary
English (red entry)
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Levels of Word List (1)
• Level 0:
basic and the most frequently used
words (e.g. and, I, my, the, etc.)
• Level 1:
Collin COBUILD English Dictionary
frequency band 5 ◆◆◆◆◆ and
frequency band 4 ◆◆◆◆
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Levels of Word List (2)
• Level 2:
Longman Dictionary W1, S1, W2, S2, W3,
S3 (-- Collin COBUILD English
Dictionary◆◆◆◆◆ and ◆◆◆◆)
• Level 3:
(A) Collin COBUILD English Dictionary
frequency band 3 ◆◆◆ (-- Longman
Dictionary S1, S2, S3, W1, W2, W3)
(B) Macmillan English Dictionary ★★
(and ★★★ if not in Level 1 and 2)
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Levels of Word List (3)
• Level 4:
(A) Macmillan English Dictionary ★
(B) Collin COBUILD English Dictionary
frequency band 2 ◆◆
• Level 5:
• Collin COBUILD English Dictionary
frequency band 1 ◆
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Numbers of Word List
level 0 1 2 3 4 5
stem 141 1,567 1,548 1,179 2,670 6,198
words words words words words words
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Definition of item code
Code 6~7:
5:
8: Specification
9: part
N Category
of
Code
speech 1: Type
2~4: Level
1:
Code
recognition
general
10~15: serial
V:
-3 vocabulary
<=
1:number
verb b <= +3
2: collocation
business
G:
b: grammar
difficulty
V1262022N000001 000001~999999
2: science
noun clue
3: context
parameter
L: listening
3: medicine
adjective
4: synonymous
code clue
2: 1(+); 0(-)
R:
4: law reading
adverb
5: ESP
5: spelling
6: phrase
6: unclassified
7: idiom
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Test-stopping rules
• An adaptive test terminates when one or
more of the following stopping rules is
met: (Wainer, 1990)
(A) when a target measurement precision
level has been attained
(B) when a pre-selected number of items
has been given
(C) when a predetermined amount of time
has elapsed
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Interdisciplinary study of IRT-based Online
Adaptive English Test
Validity Question Items Reliability
English
Dept
Computer Math
Science Dept
Dept IRT logistical
Programming
models
User Interface
Statistical Analysis
Server
Test Security
Maintenance
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