(Assessment in Learning 2) Validity and Item Analysis

The item difficulty index of an item is 0.70. What decision shall be made with this item?

• Retain it

• Revise it

• Discard it

What is the level of difficulty of an item with an index of 0.15?

• Easy

• Average

• Difficult

An item is categorized as easy with an index of difficulty of 0.92. What decision shall be made for this item?

• Retain it

• Revise it

• Discard it

With the given information below, what conclusion can you make about the options of the given item considering there are 10 students who answered this question?

(1) Option A: 2 out of 10 students answer this option

(2) Option B: 3 out of 10 students answer this option

(3) Option C: 3 out of 10 students answer this option

(4) Option D: 2 out of 10 students answer this option

Note: A is the correct answer.

• It is an easy item.

• More half of the students got the correct answer.

• All options are plausible.

With the given information below, what conclusion can you make about the options of the given item considering there are 10 students who answered this question?

(1) Option A: 0 out of 10 students answer this option

(2) Option B: 8 out of 10 students answer this option

(3) Option C: 1 out of 10 students answer this option

(4) Option D: 1 out of 10 students answer this option

Note: B is the correct answer.

• You should retain the item.

• It is an easy item.

• All options are plausible.

The item discrimination index of an item is 0.35. What decision shall made to the item?

• Retain it.

• Revise it

• Discard it

What implication can be drawn when the item discrimination index is 1?

• It is an easy item.

• It is a difficult item.

• It is an item which complete discriminates the upper to the lower group.

What implication can be drawn when the item discrimination index is 0?

• It is a difficult item.

• There equal number of students from upper and lower group who got the correct answer.

• It is an item which complete discriminates the upper to the lower group.

Mr. Cruz ask for the help of his head teacher to judge if the items or questions of his constructed test measures the knowledge and skills supposed to be measured. What quality of test is being checked in this situation?

• Validity

• Reliability

• Scorability

Mr. Santos prepared 50-item test which will be conducted for 15 minutes only. The students were rattled and simply guessed the answer on the later part of the questionnaire. Which of the following will be greatly affect by the behavior of the students?

• Validity

• Reliability

• Measurability