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Direct linkMusa Adekunle Ayanwale; Jamiu Oluwadamilare Amusa; Adekunle Ibrahim Oladejo; Funmilayo Ayedun – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2024
The study focuses on assessing the proficiency levels of higher education students, specifically the physics achievement test (PHY 101) at the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). This test, like others, evaluates various aspects of knowledge and skills simultaneously. However, relying on traditional models for such tests can result in…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Difficulty Level, Item Analysis, Test Items
Download full textYildirim, Osman Gazi; Ozdener, Nesrin – International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools, 2022
The main goal of the current study is to develop a reliable instrument to measure programming anxiety in university students. A pool of 33 items based on extensive literature review and experts' opinions were created by researchers. The draft scale comprised three factors applied to 392 university students from two different universities in Turkey…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Factor Analysis
Finch, Holmes – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2022
Researchers in many disciplines work with ranking data. This data type is unique in that it is often deterministic in nature (the ranks of items "k"-1 determine the rank of item "k"), and the difference in a pair of rank scores separated by "k" units is equivalent regardless of the actual values of the two ranks in…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Statistical Inference, Models, College Faculty
Nicklin, Christopher; Vitta, Joseph P. – Language Testing, 2022
Instrument measurement conducted with Rasch analysis is a common process in language assessment research. A recent systematic review of 215 studies involving Rasch analysis in language testing and applied linguistics research reported that 23 different software packages had been utilized. However, none of the analyses were conducted with one of…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Vocabulary Development, Language Tests, Computer Software
Çakiroglu, Ünal; Er, Betul – Informatics in Education, 2020
Considerable effort has been invested in innovative practices about teaching programming. Although the usefulness of metacognition in learning process is acknowledged, evidence demonstrating how metacognitive strategies effect in the programming classrooms is still very scarce. Given the importance of metacognitive strategies, this study seeks to…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Learning Strategies, Programming, Computer Science Education
Kuechler, William L.; Simkin, Mark G. – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2010
Both professional certification and academic tests rely heavily on multiple-choice questions, despite the widespread belief that alternate, constructed-response questions are superior measures of a test taker's understanding of the underlying material. Empirically, the search for a link between these two assessment metrics has met with limited…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Performance Based Assessment, Alternative Assessment, Knowledge Level
