Development and Evaluation of Computer Based "Adaptive Tests for Language Abilities in Japanese"

基于计算机的“日语语言能力适应性测试”的开发与评价

• 批准号: 14310059
• 负责人: TAKAHASHI Noboru
• 金额: $ 5.95万
• 依托单位: Osaka Kyoiku University
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 2002 至 2004
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/en/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-14310059/
• 关键词: vocabulary development; kanji; pragmatic ability; grammatical ability; item response theory; adaptive tests; 言語能力; 語彙; 漢字; 文法; 語用; パーソナルコンピユータ; 用語

The objective of this research was to develop computer-based adaptive tests for language abilities for Japanese children. There were four subtests : vocabulary, kanji knowledge, grammar and discourse cmprehension, and pragmatic knowledge. As for the vocabulary test, we made two versions of tests for preschoolers, three for lower grade of elementary school, three for upper grade, and two versions for junior high school students. Based on the results of more than 2700 children, parameters of difficulty and discrimination were estimated. Totally 270 items were chosen after eliminating inappropriate items. In the case of Kanji test, we chose different levels of Kanji letters from the list of Kyoiku Kanji and Joyo Kanji. Based on the selected Kanji letters, we made a Kanji test which is composed of 160 items after eliminating inappropriate items from the results of about 2300 students. Both vocabulary and kanji tests working on the Windows system was developed.Grammar and discourse tests we … More re composed of seven subtests : case particles, verbs such as give and take, auxiliary verbs, contextual meanings of emotion and contract, adverbs, deixis, and conjunctions and conjunctive particles. After elementary school children from first to third grades, each of which were about one hundred students, responded the tests, parameters of difficulty and discrimination in each item were estimated.The interpretation of equivocal expressions in elementary school children was investigated to constitute the tasks of pragmatics. There were twelve subtypes : range of negation, local addition of new information, indirect expression, irony, intention, idiom, metaphor, pun, riddle, homophone, and demonstrative. Factor analysis based on the fifty items of these subtypes was conducted based on the data of elementary school children from the second to sixth, each of which were there about 140 children. Two factors, named "understanding idioms and metaphors," and "using of contextual information," were extracted. Less

这项研究的目的是为日本儿童开发基于计算机的语言能力适应性测试。测试包括词汇量、汉字知识、语法和语篇理解、语用知识四个子测试。在词汇测试方面，我们为学龄前儿童设计了两个版本的测试，为小学低年级设计了三个版本，为高年级设计了三个版本，为初中学生设计了两个版本。根据2700多名儿童的调查结果，估计了难度和辨别力的参数。剔除不合适的项目后，共选出270个项目。在汉字测试中，我们从恭词和乔代汉字列表中选择了不同层次的汉字字母。在选择汉字字母的基础上，我们从2300名学生的结果中剔除不合适的词，制作了一个由160个词组成的汉字测试。开发了在Windows系统上运行的词汇和汉字测试。语法和语篇测试由七个子测试组成：格助词、给予和接受等动词、助词、情感和契约的语境意义、副词、指示语、连词和连词助词。在小学一年级至三年级的学生（每个年级约100名学生）回答测试后，估计每个项目的难度和歧视参数。对小学生的歧义表达的解释进行了调查，以构成语用学的任务。有否定范围、局部新信息添加、间接表达、反讽、意图、成语、隐喻、双关、谜语、同音字和指示等12个子类型。以小学二年级至六年级的儿童为研究对象，每年级约140名儿童，对这50个亚型进行因子分析。两个因素被提取出来，分别是“理解习语和隐喻”和“使用语境信息”。少