E. Item Analysis
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as the one below, to record the frequency with which each response was chosen
for each question. Highlight, circle, or use some other method to denote
the cell representing the correct answer.| Answers to 5 Multiple-choice Questions | |||||||
| A | C | A | B | D | (<- correct answers) | ||
| Students | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Q5 | ||
| Linda | A | C | A | B | D | ||
| Connie | A | B | B | B | D | ||
| Josh | A | C | C | D | D | ||
| Dennis | A | B | D | D | D | ||
| Mark | A | C | A | D | D | ||
| Mickey | B | C | B | B | A | ||
| Minnie | C | C | C | D | A | ||
| Donald | D | C | D | D | B | ||
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| Q#1 |
5**
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1
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1
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1
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| Q#2 |
0
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2
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6**
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0
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| Q#3 |
2**
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2
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2
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2
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| Q#4 |
0
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3**
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0
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5
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| Q#5 |
2
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1
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0
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5**
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| ** Denotes Correct Answer | |||||
Question 1 shows over 50% of the students answered correctly, and each of the distractors was selected. The distractors have functioned as they should. The teacher may be less than satisfied with only 5 of 8 students answering correctly, but a class would generally have more than eight students and could well have a higher percentage of correct answers while still having effective distractors.
In general, it is not desirable to have one of the distractors chosen more often than the correct answer, as occurred with question 4. This indicates a potential problem with the question. It may be misleading.
If students do not know the correct answer and are purely guessing, their answers would be expected to be distributed among the distractors as well as the correct answer, perhaps as for question 3.
If one or more distractors are not chosen, as occurs in questions 2, 4, and 5, the unselected distractors probably are not plausible and, if the teacher wants to make the test more difficult, should be replaced in subsequent tests.
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