Cut-score Indices

Single administration of a test

Note: Input values must be separated by tabs. Copy and paste from Excel/Numbers.

If you need to create 1-0 data first, use Binary (1-0) Data Converter .

Your data needs to have the header (variable names) in the first row.


Option:


                
                

Basic statistics and item statistics


                

Drop if: Cronbach alpha when the item is removed
r dropped: item-total correlation without the item
IF: item facility or item mean (proportion of those who answered the item correctly)
ID: item discrimination (upper 1/3 - lower 1/3)
rpbi: point-biserial correlation


Histogram

Box plot with individual data points


Total score and percentage (descending order)


                

Cut-score Indices


                

Total IF: item facility or item mean of all test-takers
Pass IF: item facility of masters (over the cut-score)
Fail IF: item facility of non-masters (under the cut-score)
B: B-index (Pass IF — Fail IF)
A: Agreement statistic (Brown & Hudson, 2002, p. 125)
Φ: Item phi (Brown & Hudson, 2002, p. 126)


Comparison of masters and non-masters



R session info

              

Difference Index

Two administrations of the test

Note: Input values must be separated by tabs. Copy and paste from Excel/Numbers.

If you need to create 1-0 data first, use Binary (1-0) Data Converter .

Your data needs to have the header (variable names) in the first row.


Option:

Pretest


                
                

Posttest


                
                

Basic statistics and item statistics


                

Drop if: Cronbach alpha when the item is removed
r dropped: item-total correlation without the item
IF: item facility or item mean (proportion of those who answered the item correctly)
ID: item discrimination (upper 1/3 - lower 1/3)
rpbi: point-biserial correlation


Difference index (DI)


                

IF = Item facility (proportion of those who answered the item correctly)
DI = Difference index (Posttest IF - Pretest IF)
IF DI is > .10, the item is appropriate for criterion-referenced test.


Change (gain) score


                

Gain: Post — Pre
Exp.Post: Expected posttest score = M.post + r * (SD.post/SD.pre) * (X - M.pre)
±RTM: Post — Exp.Post (If the value is positive, the gain is over regression to the mean (RTM) effect.)
Adj.Post: Asjusted (corrected) posttest score (Bonate, 2000)


Gain score reliability


                

If these values are low, you should not use the gain score as an indicator for subsequent analysis.




Overlayed histograms


Box plots with individual data points


Changes of the individual data


Scatterplot


Paired t-test


                

Effect size indices


                

(Borenstein et al., 2009)



R session info

              
Note

This web application is developed with Shiny.


List of Packages Used
library(shiny)
library(shinyAce)
library(psych)
library(CTT)
library(lattice)
library(latticeExtra)
library(beeswarm)

Code

Source code for this application is based on "The handbook of Research in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching" (Takeuchi & Mizumoto, 2012) and MacR.

The code for this web application is available at GitHub.

If you want to run this code on your computer (in a local R session), run the code below:
library(shiny)
runGitHub("criterion","mizumot")


Acknowledgment

I thank Dr. Takaaki Kumazawa for his support and feedback to create this web application.


Citation in Publications

Mizumoto, A. (2015). Langtest (Version 1.0) [Web application]. Retrieved from http://langtest.jp


Article

Mizumoto, A., & Plonsky, L. (2015). R as a lingua franca: Advantages of using R for quantitative research in applied linguistics. Applied Linguistics, Advance online publication. doi:10.1093/applin/amv025


Recommended

To learn more about R, I suggest this excellent and free e-book (pdf), A Guide to Doing Statistics in Second Language Research Using R, written by Dr. Jenifer Larson-Hall.

Also, if you are a cool Mac user and want to use R with GUI, MacR is defenitely the way to go!


Author

Atsushi MIZUMOTO, Ph.D.
Professor of Applied Linguistics
Faculty of Foreign Language Studies /
Graduate School of Foreign Language Education and Research,
Kansai University, Osaka, Japan