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

本研究的目的是为日本儿童开发基于计算机的语言能力自适应测试。本研究共设词汇、汉字知识、语法与语篇理解、语用知识四个分测验。至于词汇测试，我们为学龄前儿童制作了两个版本的测试，为小学低年级制作了三个版本，为高年级制作了三个版本，为初中生制作了两个版本。根据2700多名儿童的结果，估计的难度和歧视的参数。剔除不合适的条目后，共选取270个条目。在汉字测试的情况下，我们选择了不同级别的汉字字母表中的Kyoiku汉字和Joyo汉字。根据选定的汉字字母，我们从约2300名学生的成绩中剔除了不合适的项目后，制作了由160个项目组成的汉字测试。开发了适用于Windows系统的词汇和汉字测试。 ...更多信息 由七个小测验组成：格助词、动词（如给予和接受）、助动词、情感和契约的语境意义、副词、指示语、连接词和连接助词。本研究以100名小学一至三年级儿童为被试，通过对测试结果的分析，估计了各项目的难度和区分度，并对小学儿童歧义表达的理解进行了语用学研究。有十二种亚型：否定范围、局部增加新信息、间接表达、反语、意向、成语、比喻、双关、谜语、同音异义、指示等。根据这些亚型的50个项目进行因子分析的基础上，从小学二年级到六年级的数据，每个都有大约140名儿童。本研究提取了两个因素，分别为“对习语和隐喻的理解”和“对语境信息的利用”。少

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