Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Symposium (PROMS) 2012 Conference Proceeding

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.