Rasha Abed Hussein

Dictation is a traditional technique for both teaching and testing overall language ability and listening comprehension. In a dictation, a passage is read aloud by the teacher and examinees write down what they hear. Due to the peculiar form of dictations, psychometric analysis of dictations is challenging. In a dictation, there is no clear boundary between the items and every word in the text is potentially an item. This makes the analysis of dictations with classical and modern test theories rather difficult. In this study, we suggest a procedure to make dictations analyzable with psychometric models. Our strategy entailed using several independent short passages instead of a single long passage. The number of mistakes in each passage was counted and entered into the analysis. Rasch model analysis was then applied to the passage scores (mistakes). Our findings showed that dictations fit the Rasch model very well and it is possible to measure examinees’ ability on an interval scale using dictations.

The article is devoted to solving the problems of predicting the education of Ukrainian staff in the current COVID-2019 conditions in order to improve the efficiency of their work. Theoretical approaches regarding the characteristics of modeling and prediction of education have been studied, systematic and summarized. Factors that significantly complement the theory and methodology of the scientific provisions of the economy have been identified, taking into account the peculiarities of their work in the modern economic environment, structural changes, and new changes. The pros and cons of studying modeling approaches have been identified. The main features of structural change have been studied and it has been established that the modeling and forecasting of staff education has significant features.