DON MARIANO MARCOS MEMORIAL STATE UNIVERSITY

North La Union Campus

Sapilang, Bacnotan, La Union

Item Analysis of Assessment Tools Prepared by

College of Education Teachers in DMMMSU
NLUC
By:
Nora A. Oredina
Rosita P. Abudo
Criselda G. Sario
Salve Maria A. Sanchez
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North La Union Campus
Sapilang, Bacnotan, La Union

RATIONALE
-Role of Assessment
-Need for teachers to be competent in
assessing students’ performance
-Problems attributed to poor assessment
-Situation in DMMMSU NLUC
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North La Union Campus
Sapilang, Bacnotan, La Union

THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL

FRAMEWORK
Theory of Evaluation
-frequent and continuous evaluation would
result to the growth of the institution
CONCEPTS:
Effective teaching and learning stem from
effective assessment
Assessment influences students motivation
and learning..\Desktop\DMMMSU
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North La Union Campus
Sapilang, Bacnotan, La Union

Statement of the Problem:

This study aimed to determine the index
of difficulty and index of discrimination of
tests prepared by CE teachers for SY 2014-
2015 as a basis of a proposed training
program to improve assessment skills of
instructors.
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North La Union Campus
Sapilang, Bacnotan, La Union

Specifically, it aims to answer the ff.

1. What is the index of difficulty of the tests
prepared by CE Faculty?
2. What is the index of discrimination of tests
prepared by CE Faculty?
3. Is there a significant difference in the index of
difficulty and index of discrimination of
assessment tools prepared by CE when grouped
according to Elementary, High School and
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North La Union Campus
Sapilang, Bacnotan, La Union

4. Is there a significant relationship

between difficulty and discrimination
index of test and students
performance?
5. What training program can be
proposed to improve assessment skills
of teachers in the College of Education?
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North La Union Campus
Sapilang, Bacnotan, La Union

METHODOLOGY
- descriptive comparative and correlational
method of investigation.
The respondents are the DMMMSU College of Education
teachers from Basic Education and those handling major
subjects and professional subjects. Subjects of teachers
with more than 20 students only were taken for the item
analysis in this study. For subjects with more than 30
students, only the upper and lower 27% of the class were
included in the item analysis. The students’ performance
in the subject was also taken.
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North La Union Campus
Sapilang, Bacnotan, La Union

Instrumentation and Data Collection

-Documentary Analysis

-Authentic Learning for the Assessment of 2 Class

-Midterm Exams and Third Grading Exams For

BEDs
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North La Union Campus
Sapilang, Bacnotan, La Union

TOOLS FOR DATA ANALYSIS

-Index of difficulty formula
-index of discrimination formula
-Mean
-ANOVA
-Tukeys HSD
-Pearson r
-t significance of r
MEGASTAT was used to treat the data
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North La Union Campus
Sapilang, Bacnotan, La Union

FINDINGS:
1. The tests prepared by the college of
education faculty are easy to moderately
easy.
2. The test prepared by faculty is
discriminating.
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North La Union Campus
Sapilang, Bacnotan, La Union

FINDINGS:
3. There is no significant difference in the
index of difficulty and index of
discrimination of tests when grouped
according to basic education subjects, major
and professional subjects
4. There is a significant relationship between
index of difficulty, index of discrimination
and performance of students.
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North La Union Campus
Sapilang, Bacnotan, La Union

CONCLUSION
1. The teachers in the College of
Education prepare tests of acceptable
degree of difficulty and appropriate to
the level of their students.
2. The tests prepared can differentiate
the good ones from the slow learners.
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North La Union Campus
Sapilang, Bacnotan, La Union

CONCLUSIONS
3. The tests in basic education, major and
professional subjects are similarly of
appropriate difficulty and are discriminating.
4. The more acceptable the index of
difficulty and the more discriminating the
tests are, the better is the performance of
students.
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North La Union Campus
Sapilang, Bacnotan, La Union

Recommendations:
1. The faculty members to continue preparing tests
which are of acceptable degree of difficulty and
appropriate to the level of their students however,
they should demand higher order thinking skills to
challenge students’ critical and analytical thinking.
2. Tests that require recall and memorization should be
minimized.
3. Teacher-made tests should range from 20% easy, 60%
moderate to 20% difficult and such should be reflected in
the table of specifications.
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North La Union Campus
Sapilang, Bacnotan, La Union

Recommendations:
4. Teachers should consider individual differences among
students and tests should strike a balance between
objective, essay, performance and variety of types of test
to do away with monotony as well as to establish the
reliability of test.
5. Teachers to continue doing item analysis to select best
items in their test and being able to master crafting test
items which are of appropriate difficulty and are
discriminating.
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North La Union Campus
Sapilang, Bacnotan, La Union

Recommendations:
6. The training program is highly recommended to
continue improving the quality of assessment tools used
by the faculty.
7. Similar research can be conducted with the aim of
determining quality of assessment tools not only along
index of difficulty and index of discrimination but also on
content validity, reliability, usability, practicality and
efficiency.
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North La Union Campus
Sapilang, Bacnotan, La Union

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