Sentence examples for wording difficulties from inspiring English sources

Problems mainly related to either vague wording, difficulties in recalling necessary information, or estimating a response.

16 These include the meaning of words, difficulties with finding a relevant word, naming, and word comprehension.

The last factor is the word difficulty level of distractors.

According to the JACET8000 word difficulty level, "cogent" is considered as the most difficult word (difficulty level category Others 16).

Next, the word difficulty level is retrieved for each distractor candidate based on the JACET8000.

These target words were selected considering the balance of their part-of-speech and word difficulty level.

Three factors are considered for controlling item difficulty: (1) reading passage difficulty, (2) semantic similarity between the correct answer and distractors, and (3) the distractor word difficulty level.

If a distractor is composed of multiple words, we calculate the average of the JACET8000 word difficulty levels of each word after removing the stopwords7.

The distractor word difficulty has also been shown to affect the difficulty of an item (Susanti et al. 2016), so we consider this factor too.

According to Susanti et al. (2016), the word difficulty of the question components contributes to the difficulty of question items by up to 60%.

The results reveal that the distractor word difficulty level had the greatest impact on item difficulty, but this tendency changed depending on the proficiency of the test takers.