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    Appraising The Classroom Test & Assessments

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    This document discusses determining the effectiveness of test items through item analysis. It describes how item analysis can identify faulty items and provide insight into student misconceptions and topics needing more work. The advantages of item analysis include enhancing individual test items and providing classroom teachers with a basis for efficient class discussion, remedial work, and instructional improvement. Item analysis procedures also allow for increased skill in test construction. The document provides examples of how to calculate item difficulty levels and discrimination indexes to evaluate test items.

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    This document discusses determining the effectiveness of test items through item analysis. It describes how item analysis can identify faulty items and provide insight into student misconceptions and topics needing more work. The advantages of item analysis include enhancing individual test items and providing classroom teachers with a basis for efficient class discussion, remedial work, and instructional improvement. Item analysis procedures also allow for increased skill in test construction. The document provides examples of how to calculate item difficulty levels and discrimination indexes to evaluate test items.

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    This document discusses determining the effectiveness of test items through item analysis. It describes how item analysis can identify faulty items and provide insight into student misconceptions and topics needing more work. The advantages of item analysis include enhancing individual test items and providing classroom teachers with a basis for efficient class discussion, remedial work, and instructional improvement. Item analysis procedures also allow for increased skill in test construction. The document provides examples of how to calculate item difficulty levels and discrimination indexes to evaluate test items.

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    Appraising The Classroom Test & Assessments

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    This document discusses determining the effectiveness of test items through item analysis. It describes how item analysis can identify faulty items and provide insight into student misconceptions and topics needing more work. The advantages of item analysis include enhancing individual test items and providing classroom teachers with a basis for efficient class discussion, remedial work, and instructional improvement. Item analysis procedures also allow for increased skill in test construction. The document provides examples of how to calculate item difficulty levels and discrimination indexes to evaluate test items.

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    The key takeaways are that item analysis is used to evaluate the effectiveness of test items by analyzing students' responses, identify faulty items, provide information about student misconceptions, and determine if items were the appropriate difficulty level.

    Item analysis is used to identify faulty test items and provide information about student misconceptions and topics that need additional work. It can also be used to determine if items functioned as intended and were the appropriate difficulty level.

    The advantages of conducting item analysis include the enhancement of individual test items, providing classroom teachers with a basis for efficient class discussion of test results, remedial work, and general improvement of classroom instruction. It also provides a basis for increasing skill in test construction.

    Determining item & task effectiveness Simplified item-analysis procedures Limitations in interpreting item-analysis results

    i.

    ii.

    iii.

    Effectiveness of each test item can be determined by analyzing how students response to it. Item-analysis: Generally associated with norm-referenced perspective (best discriminate between high and low achieving students). It is useful in identifying faulty item & can provide information about student misconceptions & topics that need additional work . Item analysis is often produced to answer questions such as the following: a) Did the item function as intended? b) Were the test items of appropriate difficulty?

    a.

    The advantages of item analysis: Enhancement of individual test items.


    Special value to classroom teachers as the following;

    b.

    Item analysis data provide: i. A basis for efficient class discussion of the test results. ii. A basis for remedial work. iii. A basis for the general improvement of classroom instruction. Item analysis procedures provide: i. A basis for increase skill in test construction.

    Examle: We have 50 test papers. Rank tests from highest to lowest. Take the top 10 and bottom 10. Check each questions to see what the difficulty and discrimination is. For difficulty: The percentage of students who answered the item correctly.
    High (Difficult) Medium (Moderate) Low (Easy)

    <= 30%

    > 30% AND < 80%

    >=80%

    10

    20

    30

    40

    50

    60

    70

    80

    90

    100

    Number of students who answered each item = 50

    Item No.

    No. Correct Answers

    % Correct

    1
    2 3 4

    15
    25 35 45

    30
    50

    Difficulty Level High Medium

    70
    90

    Medium
    Low

    What is Item Discrimination?

    Generally, students who did well on the exam should select the correct answer to any given item on the exam. The Discrimination Index distinguishes for each item between the performance of students who did well on the exam and students who did poorly. How does it work? For each item, subtract the number of students in the lower group who answered correctly from the number of students in the upper group who answered correctly. Divide the result by the number of students in one group. The Discrimination Index is listed in decimal format and ranges between -1 and 1.

    i.

    ii. iii.

    Number of Students achieving each Score

    30 20 10 0
    0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

    Hard Exam

    Normal Exam

    Easy Exam

    For exams with a normal distribution, a discrimination of 0.3 and above is good; 0.6 and above is very good. Values close to 0 mean that most students performed the same on an item. The index should never be negative.

    Item

    discrimination power does not indicate item validity. A low index discriminating power does not necessarily indicate a defective item.

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