Option:

Note: Input values (either numeric or character) must be separated by tabs. Copy and paste from Excel/Numbers.


                
                

Input answer keys (Either numeric or character, separated by tabs.):


                
                

Checking the 1-0 converted data

Only the first 10 observations are displayed.

If you want to download the converted data, use Binary (1-0) Data Converter .


Basic statistics


                

Cronbach's coefficient alpha


                

Item analysis


                

Item_Mean: item facility (IF)
I-R_Correl: Item-Remainder score correlation or "corrected item-total correlation"
r_pbi: Point-biserial correlation or "item-total correlation"
U-L_DISC: item discrimination (upper 1/3 - lower 1/3)
AENO: actual equivalant number of options (out of the total number of options)


Distractor analysis


                

Histogram of the total score


Box plot with individual data points


Test of normality


                

Q-Q plot



R session info

              
Note

This web application is developed with Shiny.


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

Code

Source code for this application is based on "The handbook of Research in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching" (Takeuchi & Mizumoto, 2012). I also referred to the code used in 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("ctt","mizumot")


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