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A Rasch Analysis to Determine the Difficulty of the National Senior Certificate Mathematics Examination
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Sewry, Joyce; Mokilane, Paul – Perspectives in Education, 2014
The National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations were written for the second time in 2009 amid much criticism. In this study, scripts of candidates who wrote the NSC Mathematics examinations (papers 1 and 2) in 2009 were used as data to analyse the marks scored and then polytomous Rasch analysis was conducted for all the sub-questions to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Grade 12, Secondary School Mathematics