1 Accepted Manuscript in Language Testing Published by SAGE A New Scoring Method for Item Response Theory Analysis of C-Tests Farshad Effatpanah 1 , Purya Baghaei 2 , Mona Tabatabaee-Yazdi 3 , and Esmat Babaii 4 1 Research Unit of Psychological Assessment, Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany 2 English Department, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad Branch, Mashhad, Iran 3 English Department, Tabaran Institute of Higher Education, Mashhad, Iran 4 College of Foreign Languages, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China Author Note Farshad Effatpanah: farshad.effatpanah@tu-dortmund.de; farshadefp@gmail.com ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3970-5588 Purya Baghaei: baghaei.purya@gmail.com ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5765-0413 Mona Tabatabaee-Yazdi: m.tabatabae@tabaran.ac.ir; tabatabaee.mona@gmail.com ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4425-3996 Esmat Babaii: ebabaii@gmail.com ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9998-8247 Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Purya Baghaei, English Department, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad Branch, Ostad Yusofi Street, Emamieh Boulevard, 9187147578 Mashhad, Iran. Email: baghaei.purya@gmail.com