摘要
基于《中国英语能力等级量表》(以下简称《量表》)构建英语阅读推理认知诊断测评模型,使用在线英语阅读推理试卷和G-DINA模型对1083名学生的英语阅读推理能力进行诊断分析,生成个性化成绩报告。结果表明:基于《量表》构建的主旨推理、时间推理、词汇推理、前提-结论推理、因果推理和回指推理6个阅读推理技能,经验证是有效、可靠的;所构建的英语阅读推理认知诊断模型拟合较好,诊断信度较高;个性化成绩报告直观、翔实地呈现了被试阅读推理能力的优势与不足,对学生后期补救学习具有指导意义。对《量表》修订及应用的启示是:1)细化阅读推理描述语的概念界定;2)平衡针对不同体裁文本的阅读推理描述语的类型和数量;3)使用文本难度分析工具衡量阅读材料难度。
As a core component of higher-order thinking ability,inferencing in EFL reading refers to the process of constructing new semantic information in a specific context by integrating textual explicit information,textual clues,or readers’background knowledge.Traditional English proficiency tests,however,only provide students with a summative score,lacking a detailed diagnosis of students’strengths and weaknesses in inferencing.To make up this deficiency,cognitive diagnostic assessment(CDA)appears on the scene.CDA decomposes the macro-level ability of a specific domain into various knowledge,skills,and strategies denoted as cognitive attributes.These attributes are embedded in test items in the form of 1/0represented in a Q-matrix.With entries of Q-matrix and student’response data,cognitive diagnostic models(CDMs)will estimate students’mastery status upon the defined attributes and generate a multi-dimensional diagnostic report subsequently.Under the framework of CDA,this study incorporated China’s Standards of English Language Ability(CSE)to develop a cognitive diagnostic model for EFL reading inferential ability,aiming at offering a useful diagnostic tool to remedy the void.To this end,this study was conducted in two phases:phase I,constructing CSE-based reading inferential subskills;phase II,cognitive diagnostic modeling and generating a diagnostic report.In phase I,six CSE-based reading inferential skills were defined based on the literature review,including referential,lexical,causative,temporal,premise-conclusion,and thematic inferences,with their difficulty level ranging from CSE 3 to CSE 6.The defined inferential skills were then validated by seven experts’judgments and 16 students’instant test-taking records.All experts reached an agreement upon the definition of inferential skills after a two-round survey.Meanwhile,16 students’test-taking records proved that all six inferential skills were adopted during the test-taking process with only different frequencies,thus validating the effectiveness
作者
马晓梅
杜文博
MA Xiaomei;DU Wenbo(Xi'an Jiaotong University,Xi'an 710049,China)
出处
《中国考试》
CSSCI
北大核心
2022年第12期1-9,共9页
journal of China Examinations
基金
教育部考试中心-英国文化教育协会联合资助项目“Adopting CSE to the Cognitive Diagnosis of EFL Learners’Reading Inferential Ability”(EARG2020004)。
关键词
中国英语能力等级量表
认知诊断模型
阅读推理能力
成绩报告
China’s Standards of English Language Ability
cognitive diagnostic model
reading inferential ability
diagnostic report
