The impact of item-writing flaws and item complexity on examination item difficulty and discrimination value [PDF]
BMC Medical Education, 2016 Citation: Rush, B. R., Rankin, D. C., & White, B. J. (2016). The impact of item-writing flaws and item complexity on examination item difficulty and discrimination value. BMC Medical Education, 16(1).
Rankin, David C. +2 more
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Simulation Study of Item Validity Testing and Item Discrimination Index [PDF]
Proceeding of the Electrical Engineering Computer Science and Informatics, 2014 In psychology or educational research, we often want to test the validity of our instrument. Usually we use the Pearson coefficient of correlation in validity testing. However, the distribution of the data are not always normal distribution so it is also
Setiawan, A. (Adi)
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Rethinking the Interpretation of Item Discrimination and Factor Loadings. [PDF]
Educ Psychol Meas, 2019 Factor loadings and item discrimination parameters play a key role in scale construction. A multitude of heuristics regarding their interpretation are hardwired into practice—for example, neglecting low loadings and assigning items to exactly one scale.
Jordan P, Spiess M.
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Item difficulty index, discrimination index, and reliability of the 26 health professions licensing examinations in 2022, Korea: a psychometric study [PDF]
Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions, 2023 Purpose This study presents item analysis results of the 26 health personnel licensing examinations managed by the Korea Health Personnel Licensing Examination Institute (KHPLEI) in 2022.
Yoon Hee Kim +4 more
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To what extent are item discrimination values realistic? A new index for two-dimensional structures
International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2022 Most researchers investigate the corrected item-total correlation of items when analyzing item discrimination in multi-dimensional structures under the Classical Test Theory, which might lead to underestimating item discrimination, thereby removing items
İbrahim Uysal, Abdullah Faruk Kılıç
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Applying a two-parameter item response model to explore the psychometric properties: The case of the ministry of Science, Research and Technology (MSRT) high-stakes English Language Proficiency test [PDF]
Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning, 2022 Perhaps the degree of test difficulty is one of the most significant characteristics of a test. However, no empirical research on the difficulty of the MSRT test has been carried out.
Shahram Ghahraki +2 more
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Journal of Advanced Guidance and Counseling, 2022 Purpose - This study aims to ascertain the impact of several options on distractor performance when confidence scoring was used and established the impact of the numbers of options for multiple-choice test items on the reliability of coefficients that ...
Jimoh Kasali, Adediwura Alaba Adeyemi
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A novel approach for calculating the item discrimination for Likert type of scales
International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2022 Item analysis is performed by developers as an integral part of the scale development process. Thus, items are excluded from the scale depending on the item analysis prior to the factor analysis.
Eren Can Aybek, Ümit Çelen
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Impact of simple substitution methods for missing data on Classical test theory difficulty and discrimination [PDF]
Tutorials in Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 2018 In Classical test theory, difficulty ($p$) and discrimination ($d$) are two item coefficients that are widely used to analyze and validate items in educational testing.
Béland, Sébastien +3 more
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Item Information and Discrimination Functions for Trinary PCM Items [PDF]
Psychometrika, 1997 For trinary partial credit items the shape of the item information and the item discrimination function is examined in relation to the item parameters. In particular, it is shown that these functions are unimodal if δ2 − δ1 < 4 ln 2 and bimodal otherwise The locations and values of the maxima are derived.
Akkermans, Wies, Muraki, Eiji
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