Multiple choice tests are widely applied to assess students’ knowledge in science education. This study aimed at assessing the validity and reliability of Science Multiple-choice Test Malaysia. The items for this test were formulated by researcher together with a panel teachers head department close reference Secondary School Standard Curriculum (KSSM) syllabus. consists 50 multiple-choice four...

BACKGROUND Most of the academic teachers use four or five options per item of multiple choice question (MCQ) test as formative and summative assessment. Optimal number of options in MCQ item is a matter of considerable debate among academic teachers of various educational fields. There is a scarcity of the published literature regarding the optimum number of option in each item of MCQ in the fi...

In educational measurement, the objective is to measure some unknown latent variable or variables that represent a student’s underlying ability or abilities in a subject domain. The first step in this process is to collect observable data from the student that will provide a window into these latent variables. Typically, this takes the form of a student’s response to a test question (usually ca...

Islamic financial literacy is an emerging term which increasingly used in research and policy. Though a study this area growing, there lack of accepted method to measure literacy. This aims develop valid reliable instrument access among MUM (Muslim Urban Millennial) generations using Rasch analysis. A comprehensive literature review qualitative were initially performed identify the construct to...

2. A teacher finds Garret, a freshman, smoking in the boys’ locker room. In accordance with school policy, the teacher completes a discipline notice and sends Garret to the principal’s office. Mr. Rodriquez, the principal, informs Garret that he has been accused of smoking in the locker room. He tells Garret that because this is his first offense, he will be suspended for three days. Mr. Rodriq...

Thursday, May-16, Afternoon Session [2:00 5:35] Lihua Yao Multidimensional Item Response Theory: Applications and BMIRT, LinkMIRT, and SimuMIRT Software BMIRT (Yao, 2003) is a computer program that uses the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method to estimate item and ability parameters in the multidimensional multigroup IRT framework; exploratory and confirmatory approaches are supported. LinkMI...

This thesis is about the design and analysis of Bloom filter and multiple choice hash table variants for application settings with extreme resource requirements. We employ a very flexible methodology, combining theoretical, numerical, and empirical techniques to obtain constructions that are both analyzable and practical. First, we show that a wide class of Bloom filter variants can be effectiv...

Taking multiple-choice practice tests with competitive incorrect alternatives can enhance performance on related but different questions appearing on a later cued-recall test (Little et al., Psychol Sci 23:1337-1344, 2012). This benefit of multiple-choice testing, which does not occur when the practice test is a cued-recall test, appears attributable to participants attempting to retrieve not o...