Item and test analysis report

By

J.S.Ditshego
Bed Hons
2008
Report on test and item analysis

Bed
Hons

2008

Computer Integration

Josiah Seraga Ditshego

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 Acknowledgements

I wish to express my sincere appreciation to Prof Kϋhn for his

professional support and constructive comments. I would also like
thank a class of 2008 for the moral support. A special thank you to
my family and in particular my wife Aletta.

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 Descriptive abstract

This report represents a working tool to problems faced by High

school educators in their quest to improve the quality of item and
test analysis. The higher failure rate in matric requires a closer look
into the learner’s responses to questions/items.

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 Table of content
No Content Page
List of tables vi
List of figures Vii

1 Introduction 1
2 Purpose of the report 1
3 Procedure 1
4 Test analysis 2
4.1 Descriptive statistics 2
4.2 Frequency graphs 3
4.2.1 Grouped frequency table 3
4.2.2 Cumulative frequency 3
4.2.3 Frequency histogram 4
4.2.4 Frequency polygon 5
4.2.5 Cumulative frequency graph 6
4.3 Reliability coefficient of a test 6
5 Item analysis 8
5.1 Difficulty and discrimination of a set of 8
test scores
6 Conclusion 12
7 References 13
8 Appendices 14
8.1 Appendix A 14
8.2 Appendix B 15
8.3 Appendix C 16

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List of Tables

Table Description Page

Table 1 Descriptive statistics 2

Table 2 Grouped frequency table 3

Table 3 Cumulative frequency 4
distribution table
Table 4 Coefficient of reliability 7

Table 5 Difficulty index (p) 8

Table 6 Interpretation of difficulty 9

level of questions
Table 7 Number of students in the 11
upper and the lower group
Table 8 Discrimination index (D) 12

List of figures

Figure Description Page

Figure 1 A normal distribution curve

Figure 2 Frequency histogram

Figure 3 Frequency Polygon graph

Figure 4 Cumulative frequency graph

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Terminology List

Term Definition
Mean Define as the average of scores
Mode It is the score that occurs most frequently
Median It is the score that divide the distribution
into two halves
Reliability coefficient Defined as the extent to which the test is
likely to give consistent scores (Borich &
 Kubiszyn ).
STEDV It s the value that include all the scores in
a distribution. It as an estimate of
variability, and includes the mean in the
distribution.
Descriptive statistics Describe basic features of data
Item analysis Described as statistical analysis which
shows the effectiveness of individual test
items (Borich & Kubiszyn).

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