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Huibregtse, Ineke; Admiraal, Wilfried; Meara, Paul – Language Testing, 2002
Discusses how to tackle the problem of determining a meaningful score for yes-no tests used to measure the size of receptive vocabulary. Signal Detection Theory is applied, and a new more accurate index is suggested. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Receptive Language, Scores