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5. What is 1=4?
Direction: Identify the following.
1. What creature has the largest eyes in the world?
2. Is light a form of wave or particle?
3. What do you call a system through which things are bought and
sold illegally?
4. In Mathematics, what do you call the operation that puts together
the number and determine its sum?
5. What country doesn’t have written constitution?
-Item Difficulty Number of the
students who are
-Discrimination able to answer the
Index item
Item difficulty = no. of students with correct answer
total no. of students
Range of Interpretation Action
Difficulty Index
0 – 0.25 Difficult Revise or discard
0.40
Index Range Interpretation Action
-1.50 - -.50 Can discriminate Discard
but item is
questionable
-5.5 – 0.45 Non-discriminating Revise
0 40 20 20 TOTAL
0 15 5 0 Upper 25%
0 5 10 5 Lower 25%
Difficulty index = 40/100 = 40%, within the range of “good item”
Discrimination index:
DU = 15/20 = .75 or 75%
DL = 5/20 = .25 or 25%
Therefore:
.75 - .25 = .50 or 50%
Average 10 25 5
Low 1 10 14
RELIABILITY
Item Discrimination - refers to the ability of an item to differentiate
among the students on the basis of how well they know the material
being tested.
- a Pearson Product Moment correlation between
student responses to a particular item and total scores on all other items
on the test.
-Provides an estimate of the degree to which an
individual item is measuring the same thing as the rest of the items.
Reliability