Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Symposium (PROMS) 2012 Conference Proceeding

1. On the Potential for Improved Measurement in the Human and Social Sciences
William P. Fisher, A. Jackson Stenner

2. A Pilot Study Based on Rasch into the Appropriateness of the TOEIC Bridge Test for Chinese Students: Status Quo and Prospect
Quan Zhang, Mingzhu Miao, Chunyan Zhu, Eng Han Tan

3. Validating the Model of Predictors of Academic Self-Handicapping Behavior
Hafsa Mzee Mwita, Mohamad Sahari Nordin, Mohd Burhan Ibrahim

4. Implementing Formative Assessment in the Translation Course for English Majors—Taking Beijing Sport University as an Example
Siqi Lv

5. Further Implementation of User Defined Fit Statistics
Daniel Urbach

6. Investigating the Consequences of the Application of Formative Evaluation to Reading-Writing Model
Hong Yang, Hong Zhou, Yan Zhao

7. Learning by Assessing in an EFL Writing Class
Trevor A. Holster, William R. Pellowe, J. Lake, Aaron Hahn

8. Construction and Evaluation of an Item Bank for an Introductory Statistics Class: A Pilot Study
Sieh-Hwa Lin, Pei-Jung Hsieh, Li-Chuan Wu

9. The Impact of Unobserved Extreme Categories on Item and Person Estimates – A Simulation Study
Edward Feng Li

10. Assessment Report on Reading Literacy in Guangxi Ethnic Minority Region—Based on PIRLS 2006 Test Analysis
Jing Yu, Dehong Luo

11. Extended Mantel-Haenszel Procedure for DIF Detection – A Note on Its Implementation in ACER ConQuest
Xiaoxun Sun

12. A Research on the Effectiveness of DynEd Computer-Assisted English Language Learning – Taking Ningbo Polytechnic as an Example
Jingru Huang, Baixiang Wu

13. Foreign Language Aptitude Components and Different Levels of Foreign Language Proficiency Among Chinese English Majors
Lanrong Li

14. Motivation and Arabic Learning Achievement: A Comparative Study Between Two Types of Islamic Schools in Gansu, China
Juping Qiao, Kassim Noor Lide Abu, Badrasawi Kamal

15. Rasch-Based Analysis of Item and Person Fit – A Language Testing Practice in Jiaxing University China
Guoxiong He, Huifeng Mu

16. The Contribution of Lower-Level Processing to Foreign Language Reading Comprehension with Chinese EFL Learners
Feifei Han

17. Comparing Students’ Citizenship Concepts with Likert-Scale
Joseph Chow

Keywords: Education, Education (general), Linguistics (general)