Development and validation of Writing Assessment Literacy Inventory (WALI) for English language primary school teachers using Rasch model
<p>The purpose of this study is to develop and validate the Writing Assessment Literacy</p><p>Inventory (WALI) for the English primary school teachers focusing on three</p><p>constructs which are practices, belief, and knowledge....
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2021
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| Summary: | <p>The purpose of this study is to develop and validate the Writing Assessment Literacy</p><p>Inventory (WALI) for the English primary school teachers focusing on three</p><p>constructs which are practices, belief, and knowledge. The items of the instrument</p><p>were mainly adapted based on the original instrument by Crusan et al., (2016) and</p><p>input from literature in order to best suit the Malaysian context. This study used</p><p>quantitative research approach using Rasch model in the data analysis. The draft</p><p>instrument containing 56 items of original WALI was administered to 40 primary</p><p>schools teachers for pilot study in order to measure the validity and reliability of this</p><p>instrument. Based on the results of the pilot study, five items were removed from the</p><p>original instrument. The real study involved 214 primary school English teachers</p><p>from 32 schools in the district of Kinta Utara selected through simple random</p><p>sampling technique. Rasch Measurement analysis was used to obtain important</p><p>information about the validity and reliability of the instrument. The findings from the</p><p>real study showed that WALI has good validity values as demonstrated by PTMEA</p><p>CORR (0.04-0.63), and fit statistics, and the scale is functioning well. Item (0.97) and</p><p>person (0.87) reliability also showed high values. Unidimensionality value showed</p><p>acceptable range (27.6%, 31.3%) based on the analysis. The final version of the</p><p>WALI contained 49 items. The level of writing assessment literacy of teachers is at an</p><p>average level based on logit scores (0.99). From the results, it can be concluded that</p><p>WALI has good validity and reliability values. Therefore, the instrument can be used</p><p>in other primary schools in Malaysia. In addition, WALI will add to collection of</p><p>assessment instrument in writing literacy, and it encourages the use of modern test</p><p>theory in language testing.</p> |
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