Construct Validation of the English Subtest of the Korean College Scholastic Ability Test

• 영문명: Construct Validation of the English Subtest of the Korean College Scholastic Ability Test
• 발행기관: 팬코리아영어교육학회(구 영남영어교육학회)
• 저자명: Tae-Il Pae
• 간행물 정보: 『영어교육연구』제17권 1호, 45~58쪽, 전체 14쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 교육학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2005.03.01

영문 초록

  This study presented a construct validation procedure for the English subtest of the 1998 KCSAT (Korean College Scholastic Ability Test) for 10,000 examinees with different academic tracks (e.g., Humanities & Sciences). The English subtest consisted of two subscales (e.g., Listening and Reading Comprehension) with a total of 55 test items, and the binary item response data were subjected to the TESTFACT 4.0 program (Wood, Wilson, Gibbons, Schilling, Muraki, & Bock, 2002), which handles exploratory factor analysis with dichotomous data. Factor scores generated from the TESTFACT procedure were taken to the LISREL 8.5 program, and a multi-sample confirmatory factor analysis was performed to examine the invariance of the factor loadings of the English subtest across humanities and sciences. Results of the multi-sample analysis indicate a variant factor structure of the English subtest for the Humanities and Sciences. This suggests that the test may have different meanings for examinees with different academic backgrounds, hence threatening construct validity of the test.

목차

Abstract
Ⅰ. INTRODUCTION
Ⅱ. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
Ⅲ. METHODOLOGY
Ⅳ. RESULTS
Ⅴ. CONCLUSION
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test bias factor structure construct validity