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Structural Analysis of the Croatian Language Domains: Examples from the Croatian National Assessment

Croatian educational system is facing the process of introducing student assessment system in order to determine information on the long term progress in the academic performance and factors that affect students’ accomplishment. The cooperation between CITO and Croatian National Centre for External Evaluation of Education (NCEEE) represents the important progress in assessment within the international project Development of Instruments in Croatian National Assessment. The main objective of that project was the education and capacity building of NCEEE experts. The most important activity within the project was the assessment of educational achievements of the 2nd grade gymnasium programme students. Along with broadly specified goal, the aim of the project was to analyze sample data in order to determine some of the factors that affect language domain constructs and possible external factors influencing students’ performance. The current research analyses the data on Croatian language performance in four tested domains: grammar, theory of literature, reading of literary and non-literary text. The results justify used division of tested domains. In addition, some demographic variables influence the students’ achievement. One of the specific influences is the one of gender on the reading performance results, which could be derived from the thematic of used texts. The results of presented analysis could be used to improve the validity of instruments and quality of reading framework for the long term assessment as well as to provide considerable information on target student population. Croatian educational system is facing the process of introducing student assessment system in order to determine information on the long term progress in the academic performance and factors that affect students’ accomplishment. The cooperation between CITO and Croatian National Centre for External Evaluation of Education (NCEEE) represents the important progress in assessment within the international project Development of Instruments in Croatian National Assessment. The main objective of that project was the education and capacity building of NCEEE experts. The most important activity within the project was the assessment of educational achievements of the 2nd grade gymnasium programme students. Along with broadly specified goal, the aim of the project was to analyze sample data in order to determine some of the factors that affect language domain constructs and possible external factors influencing students’ performance. The current research analyses the data on Croatian language performance in four tested domains: grammar, theory of literature, reading of literary and non-literary text. The results justify used division of tested domains. In addition, some demographic variables influence the students’ achievement. One of the specific influences is the one of gender on the reading performance results, which could be derived from the thematic of used texts. The results of presented analysis could be used to improve the validity of instruments and quality of reading framework for the long term assessment as well as to provide considerable information on target student population.

national assessment; assessment domain construct; demographic variables; students’ achievement in Croatian language

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