Item analysis of university-wide multiple choice objective examinations: the experience of a Nigerian private university
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Teachers and Students worldwide often dance to the tune of tests and examinations.
Assessments are powerful tools for catalyzing the achievement of educational
goals, especially if done rightly. One of the tools for ‘doing it rightly’ is item analysis. The
core objectives for this study, therefore, were: ascertaining the item difficulty and distractive
indices of the university wide courses. A range of 112–1956 undergraduate students
participated in this study. With the use of secondary data, the ex-post facto design
was adopted for this project. In virtually all cases, majority of the items (ranging between
65% and 97% of the 70 items fielded in each course) did not meet psychometric standard in
terms of difficulty and distractive indices and consequently needed to be moderated or
deleted. Considering the importance of these courses, the need to apply item analyses when
developing these tests was emphasized
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BF Psychology