Item Analysis: Dr. Moawia Ahmed Elbadri
Item Analysis: Dr. Moawia Ahmed Elbadri
Item Analysis: Dr. Moawia Ahmed Elbadri
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Reliability
"consistency" or "repeatability" of your
measures.
Test-retest reliability
is a measure of reliability obtained by
administering the same test twice over a
period of time to a group of individuals.
Reliability
inter-rater reliability:
inter-rateragreement
is the degree of agreement
amongraters.
Validity
Validity:
Discrimination
Reliability
Distractor analysis
Item
Difficulty
difficulty level
(p or percentage passing)
Item Difficulty
Definition:
measure of the proportion of students
who answered a test item correctly
Item Difficulty(p value)
Item Difficulty
0.7
5 True-False
0.6
7 MCQ 3 alternatives
0.62
5 MCQ 4 alternatives
0.6
0 MCQ 5 alternatives
0.5
0 Essay test
Examples
Number of students who answered each item
= 50
Item No. Correct % Correct Difficulty
No. Answers Level
1 15 30 ???
2 25 50 ???
3 35 70 ???
4 45 90 ???
Discrimination Index (d)
Discrimination Index
distinguishes for each item between
the performance of students who did
well on the exam and students who
did poorly.
Discrimination index
refers to the degree to which success or
failure of an item indicates possession of
the achievement being measured.
Formula: Item
Discrimination
Student Total Score Questions
(%)
Q -I Q-II Q-III
Ram 92 1 0 1
Swetha 90 0 0 1
Ajmal 85 1 0 1
John 80 1 0 1
Prabhu 78 1 0 1
Rajesh 70 1 1 0
Asif 65 1 1 1
Manish 55 1 0 0
Sam 48 1 1 0
Manu 45 0 0 0
0.1
1 90 20
2 80 70
1
3 100 0 0
4 100 100
0
5 50 50
6 20 60
-0.4
1.Kuder- Richardson 20
2.Kuder-Richardson 21
3.Cronbach alpha
0.61 0.70 Good ; in the range of most. Probably few items could be
improved.
Distractor efficiency:
deals with the way a distractor lures test
takers, especially those with low abilities.
Any distractor not picked up by at
least 5% of the students
=
NOT good
distractor
Distractor Analysis
Distractor Analysis
An ideal item
is one that all students in the upper group
answer correctly and all students in the lower
group answer wrongly.
Item 1 8 3 1 0
Item 2 2 8 2 0
Item 3 4 8 0 0
Item 4 1 3 8 0
Item 5 5 0 0 7
Distracter Analysis: Examples
Item 1 A* B C D E Omit
% of students in upper 20 5 0 0 0 0
% of students in the middle 15 10 10 10 5 0
% of students in lower 5 5 5 10 0 0
Item 2 A B C D* E Omit
% of students in upper 0 5 5 15 0 0
% of students in the middle 0 10 15 5 20 0
% of students in lower 0 5 10 0 10 0