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EDUC6 (Difficulty and Discrimination Indexes)

The document discusses analyzing test questions using difficulty and discrimination indexes. It provides examples of calculating these indexes for 3 test questions and discusses whether each question should be retained, revised, or discarded based on the analysis.

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EDUC6 (Difficulty and Discrimination Indexes)

The document discusses analyzing test questions using difficulty and discrimination indexes. It provides examples of calculating these indexes for 3 test questions and discusses whether each question should be retained, revised, or discarded based on the analysis.

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Name: Kay Tracey A.

Urbiztondo Date: March 27, 2021


Instructor: Ma’am Alicia B. Galvezo
Subject: EDUC6 – Assessment of Student Learning 1

DIFFICULTY INDEX

Number of students who answered each item = 21

No. of Correct
Item No. % Correct Difficulty Level Action
Answers
1 10 47.62 Medium Retain
2 5 23.81 High Revise/Improve
3 18 85.71 Low Discard

Discussion:

 The item number with high number of students who got the correct answer falls into Low Level
of Difficulty so the item number or the test question should be disregarded or revised.
 Learners have different level of comprehension in a certain question, if the learners are not able
to get a 100 percent correct answer in a certain question then it means that your question is
average and should be retained.
 There are test items that are easy and difficult and I do believe that it shouldn’t be thrown out
because there is a specific distribution of percentage in constructing a test question.

DISCRIMINATION INDEX

Number of students = 21

B1 + B2 B1 – B2
HOTS Quiz in divided by divided by half
Box 1 Box 2 Action
EmTech total number of the number
of students of students
Retain,
# Correct # Correct Difficulty Discrimination
Test Item Revised or
Upper Group Lower Group (p) (D)
Reject
1 10 5 0.71 0.48 Retain
2 5 8 0.62 -0.29 Reject
3 18 10 1.33 0.76 Retain

Discussion:

 If the lower group got the high number of correct answers than the upper group, it will
contribute to low item discrimination.
 The cause for a negative discrimination index is when the lower group got the most correct
answers than the upper group.

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