Abstract

DE OLIVEIRA, Katya Luciane; ANGELI DOS SANTOS, Acácia Aparecida; BORUCHOVITCH, Evely  and  MARIN RUEDA, Fabián Javier. Cloze’s test in primary education: differential operation of items. liber. [online]. 2012, vol.18, n.1, pp.45-52. ISSN 1729-4827.

The objective of this study was to investigate the adjustment of the cloze testing to the Rasch model and verify difficulties in response to the item related to gender (DIF). The sample consisted of 231 students from 2^nd to 4^th grade Primary Education. Data was collected by means of Cloze test which was collectively administered. The instrument was adjusted to Rasch Models. It was possible to identify in the outfit an ad2equate functioning of the items. In relation to the DIF, only one ítem indicated to differentiate by gender. Based on the data, it was concluded that there was a balance in the biases that have occurred for both boys and girls.

Keywords : Cloze’s Test; Differential Operation of Item; Rasch Models.

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