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Investigating the Reliability of the Reading Module of the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology’s English Proficiency Test | ||
| Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning | ||
| مقالات آماده انتشار، پذیرفته شده، انتشار آنلاین از تاریخ 29 اسفند 1403 | ||
| نوع مقاله: Research Paper | ||
| شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.22034/elt.2025.65321.2737 | ||
| نویسندگان | ||
| Ali Akbar Ariamanesh* ؛ Mohammad Hajimohammadi؛ Fereshte Dehghan Manshadi | ||
| Department of English Language, Faculty of Humanities, Science and Arts University of Yazd, Iran. | ||
| چکیده | ||
| As a national high-stakes test of English proficiency, MSRT needs further scrutiny of reliability. Thus, the present study aimed to investigate different sources of variation that may impact the MSRT test-takers’ reading comprehension. Accordingly, some factors including the reading topics, item types, and participants’ general proficiency were delved into based on the scores obtained from 60 MSRT prospective candidates. Upon administering a sample of the reading subtest taken from a recent version of MSRT, the collected data was dichotomously scored and then analyzed in terms of internal consistency, inter-correlations, and causal patterns. The yielded results showed an overall reliability of 0.86 for the reading module, while a moderate interrelationship was obtained amongst the passages (r = 0.47) as well as the item types (r = 0.44). Furthermore, the Mixed ANOVA results demonstrated that topic and item type significantly affected the reading performance, whereas the proficiency factor did not play a conspicuous role in distinguishing the participants’ reading accomplishment. Both theoretically and operationally, the results reported through this study may stress the need for reconsidering the influence of such test-method facets as topic and item type in the MSRT reading subtest. | ||
| کلیدواژهها | ||
| MSRT reading؛ Test reliability؛ Topic effect؛ Item type؛ Test bias | ||
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