ITEM ANALYSIS AND VALIDATION

___ is the act of analyzing student responses to individual exam questions with the intention of evaluating exam quality

• Validation

• Item Analysis

• Discrimination Index

• Difficulty Index

Item analysis procedures include proof reading of the exam prior to administering it.

• Quantitative

• Qualitative

• Validation

• Distractor Power

It is a process of collecting validity evidence to evaluate the appropriateness of the interpretations, uses, and decisions based on assessment results.

• Reliability

• Validation

• Assessment

• Evaluation

A good test must first of all be _______

• Accessible

• Easy

• Valid

• Relative

Defined as the number of students who are able to answer the item correctly divided by the total number of students?

• Item Discriminations

• Index of Description

• Difficulty items

• Item difficulty

Items tend to discriminate between those who know and those who does not know the answer?

• Index of discriminations

• Difficult items

• Item difficulty

• Item discrimination

It is computed by adding up the number of points earned by all students on the item, and dividing that total by the number of students.

• Mean

• Median

• Mode

• Standard Deviation

_______ is a measure of the dispersion of student scores on that item.

• Mode

• Mean

• Median

• Standard Deviation

This items cannot discriminate between those two groups of students.

• Good items

• Easy items

• item discrimination

• Item difficulty

A______ is one that has good discriminating ability and has a sufficient level of difficulty (not too difficult nor too easy)

• Good items

• Easy items

• Item discrimination

• Item difficulty