Development of the Academic Achievement Test for Undergraduate Students
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.200513.043How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- achievement test, item difficulty, discrimination power, distracter effectiveness
- Abstract
This study was conducted due to the in availability of a lecture-made test developed through a scientific process used to measure undergraduate students ‘achievement. It aimed to develop a good quality test which could be used from semester to semester. As a developmental quantitative descriptive study, it analyzed the items of the test that were tried out on 54 undergraduate students. Their answers were analyzed in terms of validity, item difficulty, discrimination power, distracter effectiveness, and reliability. First, the validity analysis showed that all items were considered valid. Then the difficulty index analysis showed that more than a half of the items were categorized moderate but the rest were easy or difficult. Similarly, more than a half of the items were categorizing good in terms of item discrimination power. In terms of distracter effectiveness, it was found that some items had all well-functioning distracters; some others had three or two nonfunctioning distracters. Finally, the reliability estimation analysis showed that the consistency index of the test already met the minimum reliability index required. Based on the findings, the test developer is recommended to improve the items which need revisions or change them with new items for another tryout.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Alfrits Roul Sinadia AU - Surya Jatmika PY - 2020 DA - 2020/05/15 TI - Development of the Academic Achievement Test for Undergraduate Students BT - Proceedings of the 4th Asian Education Symposium (AES 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 191 EP - 195 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200513.043 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200513.043 ID - Sinadia2020 ER -