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UZBEKISTAN MINISTRY OF DEFENCE FOREIGN LANGUAGE APTITUDE TEST BATTERY: LEXICAL ANALOGIES SUBTEST ITEM QUALITY ASSESSMENT
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Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Uzbekistan (Uzbekistan MoD) is the only governmental establishment of the nation providing its service members and employees with intensive foreign language training for the purpose of their participation in various events of international military and military technical cooperation. To this end, Uzbekistan MoD has put in place a number of mechanisms for the intensive foreign language training candidate selection, of which the central place is occupied by Foreign Language Aptitude Test Battery (UzMoD FLA TB). Since the results obtained by test takers in UzMoD FLA TB can be either beneficial or detrimental for their future careers, it is of utmost importance that the test items comprising it be of the highest quality possible. Within the framework of the present study, therefore, we conduct an assessment of the quality of the items comprising Subtest 1 of UzMoD FLA TB, i.e. Lexical Analogies Subtest through the prism of three basic parameters (item facility value, distractor efficiency and item discrimination index) based on the data from 137 service members of Uzbekistan MoD. We demonstrate that some items do not meet the quality requirements based on the parameters set and provide out recommendations as to how this particular situation can be rectified.
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Zverev , I. S. (2022). UZBEKISTAN MINISTRY OF DEFENCE FOREIGN LANGUAGE APTITUDE TEST BATTERY: LEXICAL ANALOGIES SUBTEST ITEM QUALITY ASSESSMENT. Academic Research in Educational Sciences, 3(6), 910–917. https://doi.org/
Zverev , Ilya . “UZBEKISTAN MINISTRY OF DEFENCE FOREIGN LANGUAGE APTITUDE TEST BATTERY: LEXICAL ANALOGIES SUBTEST ITEM QUALITY ASSESSMENT.” Academic Research in Educational Sciences, vol. 6, no. 3, 2022, pp. 910–917, https://doi.org/.
Zverev , S. 2022. UZBEKISTAN MINISTRY OF DEFENCE FOREIGN LANGUAGE APTITUDE TEST BATTERY: LEXICAL ANALOGIES SUBTEST ITEM QUALITY ASSESSMENT. Academic Research in Educational Sciences. 6(3), pp.910–917.