This study aims to analyze the difficulty level of IPA UTS items for Class VII and VIII at SMP Negeri 5 Bengkulu City. used a qualitative descriptive research design. The instrument in this was text Middle Semester Test (UTS) School Science Subject Junior High School. data collected were analyzed using Difficulty Index formulation. results showed that analysis City academic year 2018/2019 had d...

Purpose – Researchers discovered that when students were given the opportunity to change their answers, a majority changed theirresponses from incorrect correct, and this often increased overall test results. What prompts modify theiranswers? This study aims examine modification of scientific reasoning test, with additional exploration on confidence accuracyand its relation item difficulty. Met...

Title of Dissertation: IRT VS. FACTOR ANALYSIS APPROACHES IN ANALYZING MULTIGROUP MULTIDIMENSIONAL BINARY DATA: THE EFFECT OF STRUCTURAL ORTHOGONALITY, AND THE EQUIVALENCE IN TEST STRUCTURE, ITEM DIFFICULTY, & EXAMINEE GROUPS Peng Lin, Doctor of Philosophy, 2008 Directed By: Professor Robert W. Lissitz Department of Measurement, Statistics and Evaluation The purpose of this study was to investi...

Much of the non-psychotic mental morbidity in primary care goes undetected by the primary care health personnel. This is often because of the non-specific somatic nature of the presenting complaints of these patients and the difficulty on the part of the primary care physician to elicit specific emotional symptoms to screen psychiatric problems. This paper describes the development of the 7-ite...

PURPOSE The Impact of Cataract Surgery (ICS) questionnaire was designed to assess cataract surgery outcomes. The aim of this study was to describe the psychometric properties of the ICS questionnaire using the Rasch model in a cataract population. METHODS Ninety-one patients waiting to undergo cataract surgery in the first or second eye at the Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, South Australi...

Interactive graphics are commonly used in games and have been shown to be successful in attracting the general audience. Instead of computer games, animations, cartoons, and videos being used only for entertainment, there is now an interest in using interactive graphics for “innovative testing.” Rather than traditional pen-and-paper tests, audio, video and graphics are being conceived as altern...