Workshop Overview:
Test-item analysis provide us, three basic information: 1) what percentage of students answered the question correctly? This helps to identify the level of difficulty of test questions. For example if difficulty index is 90% it means item was very easy and this information students can seek from own resources and a teacher may not need many lectures to elaborate that concepts. 2) Second information is to know how well the item is working? This tells how the items performed in discriminating the good versus poor students.. 3) Last piece of information is how the options were used specially by the poorly performing students. Ideally those picking up the wrong answer should have evenly distributed distracters? If not than this tells about students’ misconceptions and needs to be readdressed. When test results are analyzed for item analysis, it gives an opportunity to teacher to find out the areas ofweakness and strength of his students and take appropriate action.
Learning Outcomes:
- Define the reliability of written test in OBA as a whole in clinical phase of MBBS program.
- Comprehend the concepts of Difficulty index (P), Discrimination Index (D) and Item effectiveness (IE) of distracters.
- Calculate the Difficulty Index Difficulty index (P), Discrimination Index (D) and Item effectiveness (IE) using Microsoft EXCEL.
Facilitator:
- Professor Shahid Hassan