PACIFIC RIM OBJECTIVE MEASUREMENT SYMPOSIUM 2010 KUALA LUMPUR 29 JUNE – 1 JULY 2010 CONFERENCE 07:30 – 08:15 08:30 – 09:30 09:30 – 10:15 D A Y 10:15 – 11:00 Morning Tea Break (Foyer) Keynote Address Professor Trevor G. Bond Parallel sessions 1 (TUESDAY) 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break (Foyer) 14:45 – 16:30 16:30 – 17:10 2 JULY 1, 2010 (THURSDAY) Plenary Session 1 (Dr. Jack Stenner: Causal Models) (Main Hall CAC) Parallel sessions 2 Plenary Session 2 (Dr. Margaret Wu: School Based Assessment) (Main Hall CAC) 17:15 Afternoon Tea Break (Foyer) 8:30 – 10:10 Parallel sessions 3 10:15 – 10:40 Morning Tea Break (Foyer) 10:45 – 11:25 Plenary Session 3 (Dr. Anthony Zara: Certification & Licensure) (Main Hall CAC) 11:25 – 12:15 Parallel sessions 4 13:15 – 14:30 PROMS Luncheon (Foyer) 14:00 – 14:45 PROMS Business Meeting 14:45 – 18:00 PUTRAJAYA TOUR 8:30 – 10:10 Parallel sessions 5 10:15 – 10:45 Morning Tea Break (Foyer) 10:45 – 11:25 Plenary Session 4 (Professor George Engelhard: Performance Assessment) (Main Hall CAC) 11:30 – 12:30 Plenary Session 5 (Dr. Noor Lide Abu Kassim: Standards & Standard Setting) (Main Hall CAC) 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break (Foyer) 14:00 – 15:40 Parallel sessions 6 15:45 – 16:30 Forum (Main Hall CAC) 16:30 CLOSING CEREMONY & PRESENTATION OF STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD 17:00 Afternoon Tea Break (Foyer) JUNE 30, 2010 (WEDNESDAY) 3 (Main Hall CAC) 11:10 – 1:00 1 D A Y OPENING CEREMONY JUNE 29, 2010 14:00 - 14:.40 D A Y Registration PARALLEL SESSIONS 1 JUNE 29, 2010 (11:10 – 13:00) PROMS 1 PROMS 2 PROMS 3 PROMS 4 ID 87 Rodiah Idris & Siti Rahayah Arifin ID 58 Chang Mingchiu & Tzou Hueying ID 18 ID 113 Noor Lide Abu Kassim & Noor Hayaty Abu Kasim Gender Analysis of Malaysian Critical Thinking (MYCT) The Performance of Imputation on the Detection of the Multidimensionality ID 92 Chua Kee Eng & Chew Lee Chin Gender Differential Item Functioning in Chemistry: A RASCH-based Analysis ID 74 Ngadiman Djaja Comparison of 1- And 3- Parameter Item Response Theory Models Using International Assessment Data Ian Blackman Reclaiming the Language of Clinical Nursing Clinical Supervision Behaviour: What Should be the Focus? ID 71 Yang Ya-Huei, Lin Chuan-Ju & Hung Pi-Hsia ID 17 Gurbinder Jit Singh & Ian Blackman The Factors influencing the difficulty of English Listening Tests Predicting Malaysian Nursing Student Achievement ID 9 Mary Bourke ID 73 Tala Mirzaei, Ngadiman Djaja & Haniza Yon ID 72 Hsu Chia-Ling, & Wang WenChung ID 36 Trevor Holster, Miki Tokunaga, Simon Wilkins, & J. Lake Differential Item Functioning (DIF) in Intelligence Testing in Malaysia The On-line Procedure for Simultaneous Control of Item Exposure and Test Overlap in Variable Length Vocabulary Translation Difficulty: A Rasch Perspective Construct Modeling, Using Rasch Diagnostics and Analysis to Refine an Instrument That Measures Constructs of Nursing Ethics ID 107 Hanizah Hamzah, Akbariah Mohd. Mahdzir, & Ling Swee Eng ID 69 Huang Sheng-Yun & WenChung Wang ID 90 Goh Ying Hsuan & Chew Lee Chin ID 59 Ahmad Zamri& Noor Lide Abu Kassim Are there any significant racial differences in the voting pattern amongst the young in Malaysia? DIF Matters Using Response Time to Identify Examinees with Item Pre-Knowledge under the One-Parameter Logistic Model with Ability-Based Guessing A RASCH Analysis of Cloze and Comprehension Test-Items in a Teacher-Made Chinese Language Test Setting Performance Standards in Mathematics for Form 2 Students: Application of the Bookmark Method PARALLEL SESSIONS 2 JUNE 29, 2010 (14:45 – 16:30) PROMS 1 PROMS 2 PROMS 3 PROMS 4 ID 79 Lai Wen-Pin& Chien Tsair-Wei ID 28 Rachael Tan Assessment and Comparison of Clinical Manpower between Medical Centers and Region Hospitals in Taiwan Measuring Multifaceted Performances Using Item Response Modeling ID 44 Kabiru Jinjiri-Ringim, Norlena Hasnan & Mohd Rizal Razalli ID 102 Muna Saif Abduallah AlKalbani & Amla Salleh Applying Theory of Constraints to Achieve the Operational Performance of Banks Developing a Career Decision Making Indicator (CDMI) ID 83 Yahya Ibrahim Saleh & Mohammad Khan Jamal Khan ID 60 S. Kanageswari Suppiah Shanmugam & Ong Saw Lan ID 67 Geethanjali Narayanan & Shahrir Jamaluddin ID 108 Mikail Ibrahim Comparative Analysis between Nigeria and Malaysian National Health Insurance Scheme Reform and Health Care Delivery System: Perspective on Safety and Health Management DIF Analyses: A Comparison between the MantelHaenzel Chisquare and Dimensionality Theory Item Construction for a Language Test Based on the Rasch Model ID 116 Hee Jeong Cheong, Minjung Song, SiNae Jung, Suk Won Lee ID 33 Lim Hooi Lian, Noraini Idris & Wun Thiam Yew ID 29 Tetsuo Kimura A Comparative Study on Health Insurance System of Assessing a hierarchy of pre-service teachers’ algebraic thinking in generalizing of pattern South Korea and Japan – Revolve around Out-of-Pocket Payments Towards the Construction of Item Banks for Moodle-Based in-house Computer Adaptive English tests Evaluation of the Psychometric Properties of Teaching Feedback Survey: First and Second Order Factor Analysis ID 56 Shamsoo Sa-Un, Hairuddin Mohd Ali, Mohamad Sahari Nordin, Ssekamanya Siraje Abdullah& Sharifah Sariah Syed Hassan Determinants of Teacher’s Practice of Infusing Islamic Manners (Adab) in the Classroom PARALLEL SESSIONS 3 JUNE 30, 2010 (08:30 – 10:10) PROMS 1 PROMS 2 PROMS 3 PROMS 4 ID 75 Kabiru Jinjiri Ringim, Norlena Hasnan& Mohd Rizal Razalli ID 84 Elia Md Johar & Ainol Madziah Zubairi ID 66 Hina Ayaz & Seema Munaf ID 24 Raymond Stubbe Critical Success Factors of Business Process Re-engineering on Operational Performance of Banks in Nigeria: Information Technology Capability As Moderator The Effects of Item Types on the Newly Revised Malaysian University English Test Listening Component Parental Stress of Children Diagnosed as Down Syndrome Verifying the Equating of two versions of a Yes/No Vocabulary Test using Winsteps and Facets ID 117 Ismail Hussein Amzat Nasser Alghanabousi, & Fatemeh Hakimian ID 96 Sheila Parveen Lallmamode & Noor Lide Abu Kassim Redeveloping Likert’s Management 4System, Rowe & Boulgarides Decision-making Styles Inventory and Herzberg’s Motivator-Hygiene Instrument: Rasch Model Experience Development and Validation of an Analytic Rubric for Assessing L2 Writing ePortfolios Using Rasch Analysis Intellectual Functioning of Individuals with Mental Disorders on Wais –R Validation of the PROMIS Physical Function Item Bank ID 50 Jonathan Goh Wee Pin & Lee Ong Kim ID 20 Kinnie Kin Yee Chan ID 45 Rozita Ismail ID 26 Chien Tsair-Wei & Wang Wen-Chung An analysis of automated essay scoring and human scoring on essay writing Challenges and Issues Faced When Conducting Testing on Young ID 19 Lee Huan Fang, Chien TsairWei, Hsu Su-Chen & Yen Miaofen ID 64 William Koh Siaw Yen & Ong Saw Lan ID 23 Rajeswari Devadass & Mafuzah Mohamad Investigating rating Scale Category Utility on Maslach Burnout InventoryHuman Services Survey-Taiwanese Version (MBI-HSS-TV) Assessment of Psychometric Properties of Items using Structural Equation Modeling and Rasch Measurement Model within the Framework of an Instrument (SPAQ1-Students Parent’s Actions Questionnaire) of Students’ An Exploration of Emotional Intelligence in Relation to Employees Confirming what best defines service quality: A Rasch Measurement Approach ID 63 Uzma Ali & Monica Ali ID 13 Man Hung &Saltzman, Charles Dyslexic Children Using Multimedia Courseware Working Experience Reducing Burdens with Computerized Adaptive Assessment on an Animation Satisfaction Questionnaire ID 110 Adidah Lajis & Normaziah Abdul Aziz Assessment of Learners’ Understanding: The Design and Evaluation of Node Link Scoring Technique PARALLEL SESSIONS 4 JUNE 30, 2010 (11:25 – 12:15) PROMS 1 PROMS 2 PROMS 3 PROMS 4 ID 70 Zainariah Mohd Nor, Nik Maryam Idris, Mohd Zali Mohd Nor & Azrilah Abd Aziz ID 54 Ong Kim Lee Jonathan Goh Wee Pin ID 82 Rasidy Abd Rahman & Siti Rahayah Ariffin ID 109 Basri, H, Zaharim, A, Omar, M.Z, A.Rashid, R and Saidfudin, M. Comparison of Students’ Performance Score in Verbal Comprehension Index (VCI) A New Paradigm in Validating Item Construct in Assuring Instrument Reliability using Rasch Analysis in Engineering Education Measuring Students Performance for English for Science and Technology – A New Alternative for Malaysian Secondary School Addressing the Dangers of Using Raw Scores in Measuring Epistemological Beliefs in Educational Research and Processing Speed Index (PSI) By Gender ID 30 Jin Kuan-Yu & Wang, WenChung ID 22 Rob Cavanagh & Yuko AsanoCavanagh ID 95 Eunkyung Pak & Y.S. Kang ID 104 David Beglar Do we Need Testlet Response Models if We Are Interested in Person Measure Only? Measuring Student Perceptions of their Engagement in Second Language Acquisition: Learning Japanese in Western Australia Lexical and grammatical knowledge in listening comprehension by A Longitudinal Study of Changes in Willingness to Communicate in a Foreign Language ID 51 Oon Pey Tee & Subramaniam R. ID 32 Lu Szu-Cheng & Twu BorYaun ID 100 Noviana Mustapa & Mohamad Johdi Salleh Rasch Anchored Scale on Factors Influencing the Take-Up of Physics by Students Using Subscale Score to Evaluate Student’s Performance Instructional Leadership among principals of Cluster Secondary Schools in Malaysia ID 47 Wang ID 49 Khadijah Opatokun & Che Noraini Hashim Wen-Chung , Qiu Xuelan , Jin KuanYu & Lei Wang Analyses of Examinee-Selected Items Authentic Leadership: Student Perception of Authentic Leadership at the International Islamic University Malaysia Korean learners of English ID 8 Vahid Aryadoust Using Many-Facets Rasch Model to Evaluate a Test of Writing Academic Achievement in Malaysia ID 1 Mohammad Tariqur Rahman, Noor Lide Abu Kassim, Siti Khayriyyah Mohd Hanafiah & Humairah Samad Cheung Support Group Participation, Quality of Life (QOL) of Malaysian Breast Cancer Survivors, and Causal Links between QOL Sub-domains ID 114 Sharifah Sariah Syed Hassan, Siti Rafiah Abd Hamid & Nik A. Hisham Investigating the model of teacher effectiveness among experienced teachers in Malaysia PARALLEL SESSIONS 5 JULY 1, 2010 (08:30 – 10:10) PROMS 1 PROMS 2 PROMS 3 ID 101 Kaseh Abu Bakar & Zakia Mutmainnah Kadir ID 94 Puay Cheng Tan & Chew Lee Chin ID 27 Boo Ho Voon & Karen Kueh Measuring Demotivation in Learning Arabic A RASCH Analysis of Distractors in Biology Multiple-Choice Items Measuring Website Service Quality: The Visitor's Perspective ID 93 A.Y.M. Atiquil Islam, Noor Lide Abu Kassim & Mahbubul Haque ID 86 Syakima Ilyana Ibrahim, Siti Rahayah Ariffin & Nurul Huda Mohd Abd Malek ID 53 A.Y.M. Atiquil Islam, Mahbubul Haque, Tunku Badariah Tunku Ahmad & Mohamad Sahari Nordin Development and Validation of Technology Acceptance Scale for IIUM Students using Rasch Analysis Gender Differential Item Functioning (GDIF) In Malaysia Intelligence Test ID 112 Bakare Kazeem Kayode & Che Noraini Hashim Managing Occupational Stress Among Private Islamic School Administrators and Senior Teachers in the Klang Valley ID 40 Akbariah Mohd. Mahdzir, Nadiah Ahmad Supian& Ling Swee Eng The Application of Rasch Model in the Development of Voting Pattern Indicator (VPI) Instrument Amongst the Young An Empirical Study on Students’ Intention to Adopt Online Research Database ID 89 Goh Ying Ying & Chew Lee Chin ID 35 Azlan Mohamed Zain A RASCH Analysis to Examine the Cognitive Functioning of Mathematics Test-Items based on Bloom’s Taxonomy Faculty’s Adoption of Learning Management System for E-learning: An Extended Technology Acceptance Model ID 68 Shafiza Mohamed & Siti Rahayah Ariffin ID 98 Jean Yin Chiun Phua & Chew Lee Chin Items Analysis of PERMATA pintar UKM2 Intelligence Test using Rasch Model Of Measurement Measuring Student Performance on Multimedia Science Tests: A Case Study PARALLEL SESSIONS 6 JULY 1, 2010 (14:00 – 15:40) PROMS 1 PROMS 2 PROMS 3 ID 85 Sadeghi Rassoul & Lammi Eirini ID 65 Rodiah Idris & Trevor G. Bond ID 41 Holster Trevor & Delint Darcy Rasch Model Analysis of the Child and Adolescent PsychProfiler (CAPP) Establishing and Examining Generic Skills Benchmarks Measuring Vocabulary Gains ID 77 Sehee Hong & Yongrae Cho ID 81 Brian Doig ID 111 Kamal J. Badrasawi & Noor Lide Abu Kassim Revision of the Dysfunctional Beliefs Test using Rasch Rating Scale Model The TIMSS Viking Rubrics: Are they worth the effort? ID 91 Aswati Hamzah, Ahmad Zamri Khairani ID 31 Joseph Chow Kui Foon, Trevor Bond & & Nordin Ab Razak Moritz Heene Defining Spiritual Disposition Scale of Undergraduates Students Comparing Hong Kong Students’ Ideas about Citizenship: 1999 v. 2009 Using the CivEd Database Profiling English Literacy of Malaysian Secondary School Students Using the Rasch Measurement Model: A Concurrent Analysis for Item Selection ID 115 Jamilah Jaafar & Nik Ahmad Hisham Ismail Factors Affecting Boys’ Academic Achievement ID 46 Siew Eng Ling, Akbariah Mohd, Lai Kim Leong & Ling Siew Ching Validation of Perceived Value Index for Blended Learning Course: An Application of Rasch Model