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Item Analysis VACANT
Item Analysis VACANT
Definition
Item Analysis is the process of collecting, summarizing and using information from students’ responses to
make decision about each assessment task.
Use
1. Determining whether an item functions as intended.
2. Providing feedback to the teacher about student difficulties.
3. Suggesting areas for teaching improvement.
4. Suggesting areas for teaching improvement.
5. Revising the assessment task.
6. Improving item writing skills.
3. Determine the upper 27 % and the lower 27 % groups. “Maximally reliable item discrimination results
will be obtained when each criterion group contains 27% of the total.”(Kelly, 1939). 25-33% reasonable size
for the criterion group. The high and low groups must contain the same number of individuals
4. Record separately the number of times each alternative was selected by individuals in the high and low
groups.
5. Encode the results in the template.
Item difficulty p is the percent of the group tested that answered the question correctly.
Item discrimination refers to how well the item distinguishes the more knowledgeable from the less
knowledgeable students.
SCHOOL PROFILE
8 SECTION
8 PREPARED BY
DESIGNATION Teacher I
Section: 0
Number of Samples: HG= 0 LG= 0
Prepared by: 0
Teacher I