Quantitative Test and Item Analysis Concepts

J. Norris

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This quiz tests your recall of assessment concepts related to quantitative test and item analysis. You should be able to accurately identify these concepts when you encounter them in language testing articles and documents. Your responses will be evaluated automatically, but you will not see the correct answers. For incorrect responses, please review related readings in the textbook or bring them up in class.

  1. Percentage of students who correctly answer a given item.

    2. Your answer:
    Difference index
    Item discrimination
    Item facility
    B-index

  2. Test-score consistency estimate which adjusts for the possible role of chance.

    3. Your answer:
    Phi dependability index
    KR20
    Kappa coefficient
    Agreement coefficient

  3. A test-score distribution resulting from lots of students scoring low and a few students scoring high.

    4. Your answer:
    Leptokurtic
    Postively skewed
    Platokurtic
    Negatively skewed

  4. Relationship between examinee performances on a single item and the total test score.

    5. Your answer:
    spearman rank-order correlation coefficient
    pearson product-moment correlation coefficient
    point-biserial correlation coefficient
    coefficient of determination

  5. The point halfway between the highest and lowest scores on a test.

    6. Your answer:
    Mode
    Median
    Midpoint
    Mean

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