日本テスト学会誌 Vol.10 No.1 Abstract
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JART Vol.10 No.1
| ▶ Special Article in memory of the President Haruo Yanai | |
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| Kazuo Shigemasu | |
| Vice President of The Japan Association for Research on Testing | |
| [in Japanese] | |
| ▶ Special Article in memory of the President Haruo Yanai | |
| Application of Multivariate Analysis to Epidemiologic Study (Achievements on Tokyo University School of Medicine Department of Epidemiology) | |
| Hiroaki Nishikawa | |
| University of Shizuoka School of Nursing | |
| [in Japanese] | |
| ▶ Special Article in memory of the President Haruo Yanai | |
| Development of Psychological tests using Multivariate Data Analysis — Contribution of Dr. Yanai to Educational Psychology and Psychology — | |
| Tomoyasu Nakamura | |
| Kyushu University | |
| Dr. Yanai has made a major contribution in various fields. This paper especially shows his contribution including episodes to educational psychology and psychology. His research theme was a development of psychological tests (aptitude, personality, career counseling) using multivariate data analysis in the field of educational psychology and psychology. I'd like to express my deepest condolences for Dr. Yanai in this paper. | |
| Keywords: Aptitude test, Personality test, Career counseling, Psychological testing, Multivariate data analysis | |
| ▶ Special Article in memory of the President Haruo Yanai | |
| Professor Yanai’s Works on Statistics | |
| Shin-ichi Mayekawa | |
| Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology Tokyo Institute of Technology | |
| In memory of Professor Yanai, the list of his publications in the area of statistics was analysed and it was found that his works can be classified into six distinguished groups. | |
| Keywords: Haruo Yanai, Factor Analysis, Principal Component Analysis, Multidimensional Scaling, Text Mining | |
| ▶ Special Article in memory of the President Haruo Yanai | |
| Review of Research on University Entrance Examinations by Professor Haruo Yanai — Focusing on Qualities and Abilities Required to University Entrance Applicants and Non-curriculum-based Ability Tests — | |
| Kumiko Shina | |
| Research Division, The National Center for University Entrance Examinations | |
| Professor Haruo Yanai devoted a great deal of his time to research on university entrance examinations throughout his tenure at National Center for University Entrance Examinations from April 1986 through March 2006. The amount of his precious research is too huge to cover all aspects of his work. This paper reviews his great works from the following two viewpoints: (1) qualities and abilities required to university entrance applicants and (2) non-curriculum-based ability tests. | |
| Keywords: adaptation, qualities, non-curriculum-based ability test | |
| ▶ Special Article in memory of the President Haruo Yanai | |
| Measuring Nursing — Contribution of Dr. Yanai to Nursing — | |
| Hiromi Oku, Toshiko Ibe | |
| St.Luke’s International University | |
| We are greatly honored to offer this tribute to Dr. Haruo Yanai a highly valued professor of statistics at St. Luke’sCollege of Nursing(SLCN). Dr. Yanai contributed to nursing studies and statistics for 35 years, and he made ahuge contribution to development of nursing science. Dr. Yanai’s work first appeared in a nursing journal in 1979. He was introduced as “an expert of the vocational aptitude test" in the discussion titled: “The prospects of thepresent condition and improvement of the national nursing examination”. Dr. Yanai became a part-time lecturer ofthe SLCN graduate school in 1980, and became specially approved as a visiting professor in 2004 whereupon hestrengthened his participation in nursing in earnest. For six years he led a large study on the development of computer based testing system in nursing education in addition to providing lectures and advising about statisticsfor graduate students and faculty. Dr. Yanai always instructed students with deep love and enthusiasm above allelse and his work was beyond compassion. While there are no words to truly express our thanks to Dr. Yanai for his enormous contribution to nursing we do want to convey our heartfelt feeling of thanks by commemorating his achievement here. | |
| Keywords: Dr. Haruo Yanai, Statistics, Nursing | |
| ▶ Special Article in memory of the President Haruo Yanai | |
| Memorial Address for President YANAI of JART | |
| Hiroshi Ikeda | |
| The First President of The Japan Association for Research on Testing | |
| [in Japanese] | |
| ▶ General research | |
| Quarter-century changes in applicants for the National Center Test and their regional characteristics as the 18-year-old population shrinks: Two layers of applicants and characteristics of prefectures | |
| Teruhisa Uchida, Takamitsu Hashimoto, Norio Suzuki | |
| Research Division, the National Center for University Entrance Examinations | |
| The National Center Test (NCT) has been affected by the shrinking population of 18-year-olds and the increase in the number of participating private universities in the last quarter of a century. This study analyzes the changes in the usages of the NCT so as to capture the changes in its social roles and functions. First, the national analysis suggested that there were two layers of applicants: the core applicants whose number has rarely changed over the past 25 years and the new types of the applicants who utilized the NCT in different ways. Second, the ratio of applicants who took the NCT and universities to which they went were analyzed for each prefecture. In the results, regionally distinctive patterns indicated that the NCT was utilized differently in different regions. Furthermore, regionally predicted populations of 18-years-olds suggested that the admission system must be planned and future directions proposed from regional perspectives. | |
| Keywords: The National Center Test, population decrease, university admissions system, entrance into universities, population estimates | |
| ▶ General research | |
| A Proposal of Reliability Indices of Linked Scores: Application to Analysis of Linkability | |
| Yoshikazu Sato1, Tadashi Shibayama2 | |
| 1Niigata University, 2Tohoku University | |
| We propose a standard error of measurement for linked scores and the index of reliability for linked scores in order to enrich the indices used to analyze the feasibility of linking. Our proposed indices can be easily estimated by using basic statistics such as the variance of test scores, coefficient of reliability, and correlation coefficient. When a data collection design is a single group design, the proposed indices can be readily estimated by basic analysis of test results. Even with an equivalent groups design, if the inter-test correlation can be predicted then the proposed indices can be used. Furthermore, we present numerical examples that examine the feasibility of linking from a reliability perspective by using the proposed indices together with the results of actual large-scale tests. Through the examples, we showed that the proposed indices are useful for evaluating the reliability of linked scores and that they provide various indications for making decisions about the feasibility of linking. | |
| Keywords: feasibility of linking, linear equating, standard error of measurement, index of reliability, coefficient of reliability | |
| ▶ General research | |
| Algorithm for Computerized Adaptive Test Based on Latent Rank Theory: Propositions of the Algorithm and its Validations by Simulation | |
| Minoru Akiyama | |
| Tohoku University Graduate School of Educational Informatics Education Division | |
| The purpose of this paper is to propose new algorithms for computer adaptive test based on latent rank theoryand to evaluate them by Monte Carlo simulation. Result of the evaluation, the estimation error of the LRT-CAT using the new algorithms was 1.7%, 2.8%, 5.5%,8.9% in the case of item bank of 50 items, 40 items, 30 items, 20 items, respectively. This indicates that computeradaptive test based on the latent rank theory using the item bank constructed with a small sample data where acomputer adaptive test based on item response theory can not be applied can perform on a practical level. | |
| Keywords: Latent Rank Theory, Computerized Adaptive Test, LRT-CAT, Item selection, Ability estimation | |
| ▶ Case study | |
| An IRT Analysis of TIMSS-2011 Grade Eight Test Items in Physics and Chemistry, in Consideration of Test-Curriculum Matching: A Comparison of Australia, England and Singapore | |
| Yasuhito Hagiwara, Kenji Matsubara | |
| National Institute for Educational Policy Research | |
| This study examines the relationship between countries’ differences in the extent of test-curriculum matching and their strengths and weaknesses in each cognitive domain in physics and chemistry at the eighth-grade level. The three English-speaking countries in our study, namely, Australia, England and Singapore, were chosen in order to control for the influence of difference in assessment language. Item response models were used to detect differential item functioning. The study suggests the following findings. First, in the cognitive domain of applying, even after controlling for latent traits, we found that it tended to be more difficult for Singaporean students to correctly answer items within the coverage of the other two countries’ curricula but beyond their own curriculum. Second, in the cognitive domain of knowing, it was slightly more difficult for Australian students to correctly answer the physics items that were beyond the coverage of their own curriculum. As these findings were basically consistent with the results of the previous study, it would be reasonable to assume that the relationship between differences in curriculum coverage and relative performance in different cognitive domains is more or less certain. | |
| Keywords: TIMSS-2011 assessment, test-curriculum matching, item response theory, differential item functioning, physics and chemistry at the eighth-grade level | |
| ▶ Case study | |
| Accuracy of measurement in the simplified computerized adaptive test | |
| Ryuichi Kumagai | |
| Tohoku university | |
| We investigated characteristics and the accuracy of test scores that are assessed by the simplified computerized adaptive test (SCAT; Kumagai et al., 2012). For this purpose, we conducted a computer simulation study using the Rasch model. The study identified a center bias in outlying SCAT scores and as a result, the standard error of outlying SCAT was smaller. Moreover, the standard error of SCAT was smaller than that of fixed items tests. | |
| Keywords: computerized adaptive test, CAT, accuracy of measurement, Rasch model | |
| ▶ Case study | |
| Public Relations for University Candidates: Admissions Office Examinations for the School of Engineering, Tohoku University: Its Importance and the Efficacy of Paper-or-On-Line-Based Activities and Face-to-Face Activities | |
| Naoki T. Kuramoto, Tsuyoshi Izumi | |
| Tohoku University | |
| Current Japanese universities cannot escape from conducting public relations targeted at potential university candidates. The origin of the need for public relations is rooted in the national policy to encourage the provision of information to university-bound students in order to help them choose their career course. However, the purpose of providing information about a university has been shifting toward the recruitment of freshman candidates. In Japan, research on this topic is just beginning. So far, the national universities have been the primary conductors of researcher on this topic, beginning in 2000, with a focus on assessing the effectiveness of public relations for the recruitment of favorable students. In the present study, we analyzed the responses to items concerning public relations of questionnaires given to the applicants for the “type II admissions office examinations” of the School of Engineering, Tohoku University, collected over a 10-year period. The results show that there is no difference in the responses with respect to the applicants’ hometown for the paper-or-on-line-based public relations activities. However, face-to-face activities were more effective for local applicants. Over the study period, public relations activities became increasingly important to the participants, although expanding these activities has imposed heavy loads on university faculties and staffs. | |
| Keywords: public relations for university candidates, career choice, freshman recruitment, face-to-face activity, open campus day | |