Large-scale Assessments in Education

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Table 2 Sample size for multilingual training set (80%) and individual country’s test set (20%)

From: Combining machine translation and automated scoring in international large-scale assessments

Item	Training	Test
Item	Training	C1	C2	C3	C4	C5	C6	C7	C8	Total
Item 1	4,216	144	117	129	147	279	106	133	143	1,198
Item 2	4,236	137	118	130	144	279	108	135	147	1,198
Item 3	4,411	158	130	145	153	278	106	142	149	1,261
Item 4	4,232	150	127	131	147	275	102	132	144	1,208
Item 5	4,328	146	126	129	148	280	109	143	146	1,227
Item 6	4,412	163	129	145	148	277	109	145	150	1,266

Note C1 & C2 = German-speaking countries; C3 = French-speaking country; C4 = Turkish-speaking country; C5 = English-speaking country; C6 & C7 = Chinese-speaking countries; C8 = Korean-speaking country

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