European Academic Research ISSN 2286-4822
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Article Details :
Article Name :
Summative Assessment Tests and Numeric Methods for Item Analysis
Author Name :
ALFONS HARIZAJ
Publisher :
Bridge Center
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Abstract :
Assessment is broadly defined as the process of collecting and interpreting information that can be used to inform teachers, students, and, when applicable, parents/guardians or other users of assessment information, about students’ progress in attaining the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviours to be learned or acquired in school. Summative assessment is an integral part of assessment. Without sound assessment practices, we may not know if students are progressing as planned. Further, we may not be able to effectively plan for students’ future learning opportunities. A summative assessment determines the final mark the student receives, e.g. an essay, or traditional examination. Item statistics are used to assess the performance of individual test items on the assumption that the overall quality of a test derives from the quality of its items. Item analysis is 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 is specially valuable in improving items which will be used again in later tests, but it can also be used to eliminate ambiguous or misleading items in a single test administration. In addition, item analysis is valuable for increasing instructors’ skills in test construction, and identifying specific areas of course content which need greater emphasis or clarity.
Keywords :
examination, assessment, item analysis,item difficulty, item discrimination
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