Report on test and item analysis of

multiple-choice test items

By

Johanna Hlongwane
Table of content

No. Content Page

number
List of tables i
List of figures ii
1 Introduction iii
2 Purpose of report 1
3 Test analysis 1
3.1 Descriptive statistics 1
3.2 Frequency graphs 1
3.3 Reliability coefficient of a test 4
4 Item analysis 4
4.1 Difficulty indices of a test item 4
4.2 Discrimination indices of a set of test item 5
5 Conclusion 7
6 References 7
7 Appendix 8

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List of tables

Table Description P
age
Table 1 Descriptive statistics 1
Table 2 Grouped frequency table 1
Table 3 Cumulative frequency distribution 2
Table 4 Coefficients of reliability 4
Table 5 Difficulty index 4
Table 6 Interpretation of the difficulty level of questions 5
Table 7 Number of students in upper and lower groups 6
Table 8 Discrimination index 6

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List of figures

Figur Description Page

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Figure 1 Frequency Histogram 2
Figure 2 Frequency Polygon 3
Figure 3 Cumulative Frequency ( Ogive graph) 3

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