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Abstract
This research focuses on listening ability indexes in Grade 1-9 Curriculum in elementary schools. Based on “The Strand Contents and Competence Indicator Benchmarks for Mandarin Domain Curriculum” promulgated by the Ministry of Education Affairs, a basic academic attainment test for fifth and sixth grade students is designed to serve as a tool to test the students’ competence in this learning area. The test results are analyzed statistically to verify the reliability of this test. The systematic mechanism for analyzing how test items are formed and tests model will be able to provide a guideline to course designers and teachers in writing a listening test, and also in developing item pool of elementary school core competence test. The data is qualitatively analyzed on the item checklists, table of specification. Then a model was chosen therein, and analyzed its estimating peculiarity of item analysis, such as difficult, discrimination and so on. As for test analysis, reliability and content validity are used as the target to decide whether this test quality is good or bad. Further this study aims to investigate elementary school students’ response to listening ability test and Taiwan Assessment of Student Achievement(TASA). Finally this research integrates the qualitative and quantitative analysis, checks the effect of item analysis and tools of test writing. The goals of this research are:
1. In a serious checking by kinds of checklists, most items are good in the qualitative analysis. 2. In quantitative analysis, we find a good result in the estimating peculiarity. On the other hand, the test reliability is over 0.809 and the test validity is also good. 3. The students are not good at generalizing from what they listen,and they can not distinguish the information advertised phraseology implied. 4. The students who are good at listening show well-learning ability.
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