Yong-Won Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3838596 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yong-Won Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yong-Won |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Educational Testing Service |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Future of diagnostic language assessment
Diagnostic language assessment (DLA) has emerged as a major topic of interest among language testers, as evidenced by recent publications of journal articles and special journal issues on this topic (Alderson, Brunfaut, & Harding, 2014; Lee & Sawaki, 2009). Two fundamental goals of DLA are to identify language learners’ weaknesses and deficiencies, as well as their strengths, in the targeted language domains and provide useful diagnostic feedback…
Diagnosing diagnostic language assessment
Diagnostic language assessment (DLA) is gaining a lot of attention from language teachers, testers, and applied linguists. With a recent surge of interest in DLA, there seems to be an urgent need to assess where the field of DLA stands at the moment and develop a general sense of where it should be moving in the future. The current article, as the first article in this special issue, aims to provide a general theoretical background for discussion…
The Resolution of Visual Noise in Word Recognition
Animacy Effect and Language Specificity
Toward Automated Multi-trait Scoring of Essays
The main purpose of the study was to investigate the distinctness and reliability of analytic (or multi-trait) rating dimensions and their relationships to holistic scores and e-rater® essay feature variables in the context of the TOEFL® computer-based test (TOEFL CBT) writing assessment. Data analyzed in the study were holistic and multi-trait essay scores provided by human raters and essay feature variable scores computed by e-rater® (version 2…
Dependability of scores for a new ESL speaking assessment consisting of integrated and independent tasks
A multitask speaking measure consisting of both integrated and independent tasks is expected to be an important component of a new version of the TOEFL test. This study considered two critical issues concerning score dependability of the new speaking measure: How much would the score dependability be impacted by (1) combining scores on different task types into a composite score and (2) rating each task only once? To answer these questions, gener…
Comparability of Toefl CBT Essay Prompts
Eighty-three Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) writing prompts administered via computer-based testing between July 1998 and August 2000 were examined for differences attributable to the response mode (handwriting or word processing) chosen by examinees. Differences were examined statistically using polytomous logistic regression. A variable measuring English-language ability (ELA) was developed from the multiple-choice components of …
Examining passage-related local item dependence (LID) and measurement construct using Q3 statistics in an EFL reading comprehension test
The purpose of the study reported in this article is to empirically examine passage-related local item dependence (LID) by using an IRT (item response theory)- based LID index called Q 3 in an EFL reading comprehension test, with a special focus on item types as a potentially competing source of LID with passages. In this article, definitions and causes of LID and major LID detection methods including Q 3 statistics are reviewed along with the tw…
Examining passage-related local item dependence (LID) and measurement construct using Q3 statistics in an EFL reading comprehension test
The purpose of the study reported in this article is to empirically examine passage-related local item dependence (LID) by using an IRT (item response theory)- based LID index called Q 3 in an EFL reading comprehension test, with a special focus on item types as a potentially competing source of LID with passages. In this article, definitions and causes of LID and major LID detection methods including Q 3 statistics are reviewed along with the tw…
Comparability of Toefl CBT Essay Prompts
Eighty-three Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) writing prompts administered via computer-based testing between July 1998 and August 2000 were examined for differences attributable to the response mode (handwriting or word processing) chosen by examinees. Differences were examined statistically using polytomous logistic regression. A variable measuring English-language ability (ELA) was developed from the multiple-choice components of …
Dependability of scores for a new ESL speaking assessment consisting of integrated and independent tasks
A multitask speaking measure consisting of both integrated and independent tasks is expected to be an important component of a new version of the TOEFL test. This study considered two critical issues concerning score dependability of the new speaking measure: How much would the score dependability be impacted by (1) combining scores on different task types into a composite score and (2) rating each task only once? To answer these questions, gener…
Toward Automated Multi-trait Scoring of Essays
The main purpose of the study was to investigate the distinctness and reliability of analytic (or multi-trait) rating dimensions and their relationships to holistic scores and e-rater® essay feature variables in the context of the TOEFL® computer-based test (TOEFL CBT) writing assessment. Data analyzed in the study were holistic and multi-trait essay scores provided by human raters and essay feature variable scores computed by e-rater® (version 2…
Animacy Effect and Language Specificity
Future of diagnostic language assessment
Diagnostic language assessment (DLA) has emerged as a major topic of interest among language testers, as evidenced by recent publications of journal articles and special journal issues on this topic (Alderson, Brunfaut, & Harding, 2014; Lee & Sawaki, 2009). Two fundamental goals of DLA are to identify language learners’ weaknesses and deficiencies, as well as their strengths, in the targeted language domains and provide useful diagnostic feedback…
Diagnosing diagnostic language assessment
Diagnostic language assessment (DLA) is gaining a lot of attention from language teachers, testers, and applied linguists. With a recent surge of interest in DLA, there seems to be an urgent need to assess where the field of DLA stands at the moment and develop a general sense of where it should be moving in the future. The current article, as the first article in this special issue, aims to provide a general theoretical background for discussion…
The Resolution of Visual Noise in Word Recognition
Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Mathematics education (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (3 works) · Natural language processing (3 works) · Psychometric Methodologies and Testing (3 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works)