Acknowledgements.- Poster of PROMS2012.- A Welcome Message from PROMS Chairman.- A Welcome Message from Xu Xianmin, President of Jiaxing University.- A Welcome Message from Zhang Quan, Dean of Faculty of Foreign Studies, Jiaxing University Conference Organizer.- Sponsors.- Papers.- 1. On the Potential for Improved Measurement in the Human and Social Sciences
William P. Fisher, Jr. and A. Jackson Stenner.-
2. A Pilot Study Based on Rasch into the Appropriateness of the TOEIC Bridge Test for Chinese Students: Status Quo and Prospect
Zhang Quan, Miao Mingzhu, Zhu Chunyan and Eng Han Tan.-
3. Validating the Model of Predictors of Academic Self-handicapping Behavior
Hafsa Mzee Mwita
,Mohamad Sahari Nordin and Mohd Burhan Ibrahim.-
4. Implementing Formative Assessment in the Translation Course for English Majors
LV
Siqi.-
5. Further Implementation of User Defined Fit Statistics
Daniel Urbach.-
6. Investigating the Consequences of the Application of Formative Evaluation to Reading-Writing Model
Yang Hong, Zhou Hong and Zhao Yan.-
7. Learning by Assessing in an EFL Writing Class
Trevor A. Holster
,William R. Pellowe, J. Lake1, and Aaron Hahn.-
8. Construction and Evaluation of an Item Bank for an Introductory Statistics Class: A Pilot Study
Sieh-Hwa Lin, Pei-Jung Hsieh and Li-Chuan Wu.-
9. The Impact of Unobserved Extreme Categories on Item and Person Estimates ---- A Simulation Study.-
Edward Feng Li.-
10. Assessment Report on Reading Literacy in Guangxi Ethnic Minority Region ---- Based on PIRLS 2006 Test Analysis
Yu Jing and Luo Dehong.-
11.
Extended Mantel-Haenszel Procedure for DIF Detection – A Note on Its Implementation in ACER ConQuest
Xiaoxun Sun.-
12. A Research on the Effectiveness of DynEd Computer-assisted English Language Learning -----Taking Ningbo Polytechnic as an Example
Huang Jingru and Wu Baixang.-
13. Foreign Language AptitudeComponents and Different Levels of Foreign Language Proficiency Among Chinese English Majors
Li Lanrong.-
14. Motivation and Arabic Learning Achievement: A Comparative Study between Two Types of Gansu Islamic Schools in China
Qiao Juping, Noor Lide Abu Kassim, & Kamal Badrasawi.-
15. Rasch-Based Analysis of Item and Person Fit ---- A language testing practice in Jiaxing University China
He Guoxiong and Mu Huifeng.-
16. The contribution of lower-level processing to foreign language reading comprehension with Chinese EFL learners
Han Feifei.-
17. Comparing Students’ Citizenship Concepts with Likert-scale
Kui Foon Chow.-
Abstracts.