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The impact of item-writing flaws and item complexity on examination item difficulty and discrimination value [PDF]
BMC Medical Education, 2016 Failure to adhere to standard item-writing guidelines may render examination questions easier or more difficult than intended. Item complexity describes the cognitive skill level required to obtain a correct answer. Higher cognitive examination items promote critical thinking and are recommended to prepare students for clinical training.
Rush, Bonnie R. +2 more
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Discrimination and Uniformity of Test Item Distracters
Psychological Reports, 1968 It is demonstrated that the item discrimination index (d) and an index of the uniformity of the distribution of choices of distracters (U) provide useful information about the effectiveness of distracters on multiple-choice items.
Lewis R. Aiken
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Optimal Item Discrimination and Maximum Information for Logistic IRT Models [PDF]
Applied Psychological Measurement, 1999 Items with the highest discrimination parameter values in a logistic item response theory model do not necessarily give maximum information. This paper derives discrimination parameter values, as functions of the guessing parameter and distances between person parameters and item difficulty, that yield maximum information for the three-parameter ...
Veerkamp, W.J.J., Berger, M.P.F.
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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 discrimination index summaries.
, 2022 Item discrimination index summaries.
Tatiana Orozco (9716656) +5 more
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Item analysis of multiple-choice questions in anatomy for first year MBBS
National Journal of Physiology, Pharmacy and Pharmacology, 2022 Background: Multiple choice questions (MCQs) are preferred tools of assessment because of objectivity, ease of scoring and how each MCQ functions as an item can be understood by Item analysis.
Chandrika Teli, Nilesh Kate
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Mining discriminative items in multiple data streams [PDF]
World Wide Web, 2010 How can we maintain a dynamic profile capturing a user's reading interest against the common interest? What are the queries that have been asked 1,000 times more frequently to a search engine from users in Asia than in North America? What are the keywords (or tags) that are 1,000 times more frequent in the blog stream on computer games than in the blog
Zhenhua Lin +3 more
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MedEdPORTAL, 2012 This resource is an electronic tutorial explaining the basics of item analysis. It focuses on item difficulty, item discrimination, and distractor analysis.
Christopher Reznich
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National Journal of Physiology, Pharmacy and Pharmacology, 2022 Background: Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) or items are frequently used in medical education to assess students knowledge at the end of an academic session. However, item analysis has to be done to confirm their excellence.
Afshan Kausar +2 more
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Parameters and Models of Item Response Theory (IRT): A Review of Literature
Acta Educationis Generalis, 2023 Introduction: Item response theory (IRT) has received much attention in validation of assessment instrument because it allows the estimation of students’ ability from any set of the items.
Gyamfi Abraham, Acquaye Rosemary
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