Sunday, July 26, 2015

The difficulty index and the discrimination index of a question



Calculation of the difficulty index of a question


Difficulty index                       Index for measuring the easiness or difficulty of a test question. It is the percentage (%) of students who have correctly answered a test question j it would be more logical to call it the easiness index. It can vary from 0 to 100%.

Saturday, July 25, 2015

Steps in item analysis for MCQ Questions (relative criteria tests)



Steps in item analysis for MCQ Questions (relative criteria tests)

1. Award of a score to each student
2. Ranking in order of merit
3. Identification of groups: high and low
4. Calculation of the difficulty index of a question
5. Calculation of the discrimination index of a question
6. Critical evaluation of each question enabling a given question to be retained, revised or rejected

Saturday, June 20, 2015

Calculation of the acceptable level of performance (ALP) for a MCQ test



Calculation of the acceptable level of performance    (ALP) for a MCQ test
1. Definition
The acceptable level of performance is a threshold value making it possible to decide (according to absolute criteria) whether a student "who knows barely enough" should be passed or failed. Calculation of the ALP for a test is not valid unless the number of MCQ is more than 30. Use of the ALP involves an advance judgment (before the test) on the relative difficulty of each question and enables a judgment based on the test as a whole to be made. Calculation of the ALP depends on the collective decision of several teachers each of whom has first made an independent judgment.

Saturday, June 6, 2015

What is Virtual Education



What is Virtual Education
1. Courses taught entirely online, where physical distance between teacher and student is immaterial.

2. A form of education which is outside the classroom or partially outside the classroom that is based on taking advantage of the telematic potential of the Internet to carry out formal or other types of education, by means of learning activities supported by virtual learning environments.