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    This document discusses how to analyze test items to improve test quality and identify faulty questions. Item analysis examines student responses to individual test questions to assess question and overall test quality. It can reveal questions that are too easy or difficult, fail to differentiate skilled from unskilled students, or are scored incorrectly. Item analysis provides feedback on student difficulties, suggests teaching improvements, and informs test revision and better question writing. The steps outlined are to score tests, arrange by score, analyze high- and low-scoring student responses, calculate difficulty and discrimination indices, and interpret the results.

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    This document discusses how to analyze test items to improve test quality and identify faulty questions. Item analysis examines student responses to individual test questions to assess question and overall test quality. It can reveal questions that are too easy or difficult, fail to differentiate skilled from unskilled students, or are scored incorrectly. Item analysis provides feedback on student difficulties, suggests teaching improvements, and informs test revision and better question writing. The steps outlined are to score tests, arrange by score, analyze high- and low-scoring student responses, calculate difficulty and discrimination indices, and interpret the results.

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    This document discusses how to analyze test items to improve test quality and identify faulty questions. Item analysis examines student responses to individual test questions to assess question and overall test quality. It can reveal questions that are too easy or difficult, fail to differentiate skilled from unskilled students, or are scored incorrectly. Item analysis provides feedback on student difficulties, suggests teaching improvements, and informs test revision and better question writing. The steps outlined are to score tests, arrange by score, analyze high- and low-scoring student responses, calculate difficulty and discrimination indices, and interpret the results.

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    This document discusses how to analyze test items to improve test quality and identify faulty questions. Item analysis examines student responses to individual test questions to assess question and overall test quality. It can reveal questions that are too easy or difficult, fail to differentiate skilled from unskilled students, or are scored incorrectly. Item analysis provides feedback on student difficulties, suggests teaching improvements, and informs test revision and better question writing. The steps outlined are to score tests, arrange by score, analyze high- and low-scoring student responses, calculate difficulty and discrimination indices, and interpret the results.

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    Good Morning!

    How
    Howcando we
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    How can we improve
    determine
    determine correct
    test
    the quality of the
    effectiveness
    and faulty testand
    test?
    fairness?
    items?
    ITEM
    ANALYSIS
    LORIE I. BRACIA
    TEACHER I
    “If our students learned what we taught,
    we would never need to assess. It is
    only through assessment that we can
    discover whether the instructional
    activities in which we engaged our
    students resulted in the intended
    learning. Assessment really is the
    bridge between teaching and learning.”
    - Dylan Williams
    Welsh Educationalist and a Professor of
    Educational Assessment at the
    UCL Institute of Education.
    Answers to Questions…
    1. Which topics are students struggling with?
    2. Is a particular question as difficult, complex or
    rigorous as you intend it to be?
    3. Do students really know the answer or just
    applying test-taking strategies to eliminate to the
    wrong answers?
    4. Which item should be eliminated or revised before
    use in subsequent test administrations?
    5. Does the item do an excellent job of separating
    students who know the answer from those who
    may guess the correct answer?
    ITEM ANALYSIS
    A process which examines
    student responses to individual
    test items (questions) in order to
    assess the quality of those items
    and of the test as a whole.
    Item Analysis reveals
    Items
    that are
    too easy
    or too
    difficult.
    Item Analysis reveals
    Items that
    failed to show
    difference
    between
    skilled and
    unskilled
    examinees.
    Item Analysis reveals
    Items that are
    scored
    incorrectly.
    Uses of Item Analysis
    1. Determining whether an item functions as intended.
    Uses of Item Analysis
    2. Providing feedback to the teacher about student
    difficulties.
    Uses of Item Analysis
    3. Suggesting areas for teaching improvement.
    Uses of Item Analysis

    4. Revising the
    assessment task.
    Uses of Item Analysis
    5. Improving the item writing skills.
    Steps in Item Analysis
    1. Score the Test.
    Steps in Item Analysis
    2. Arrange the Test from
    Highest to Lowest score.
    Steps in Item Analysis
    3. Separate both 27% of high and low score.
    Steps in Item Analysis
    4. Prepare a tally sheet.
    Steps in Item Analysis
    5. Convert the frequencies into proportions.
    Steps in Item Analysis
    6. Compute for the difficulty index.
    Example:

    0.86
    0.90
    0.75
    Steps in Item Analysis
    Let’s Interpret
    For teacher-made tests, form a mix
    of difficulties – a very few difficult,
    some difficult, some average,
    some easy and a few very easy.

    However, the difficult level should


    be consistent with the degree of
    difficulty of the concepts being
    assessed.
    Steps in Item Analysis
    8. Compute for Discrimination Index
    0
    0.14
    0.21
    0.5
    4 A’s of STRESS MANAGEMENT
    ADOPT
    ALTER
    AVOID
    ACCEPT
    Thank You!

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