Discuss item-analysis techniques and how these procedures could help improve your tests
What will be an ideal response?
Item-analysis techniques help teachers decide which multiple-choice items need to be revised, discarded, or retained. Each item may be examined with regard to its difficulty and discrimination. Difficulty is measured by calculating the proportion of students who got the item correct. Discrimination indicates how well the item separates students into two groups, those students who have achieved the criterion
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If the school’s goal is to address the root causes of violence, what strategies can be implemented?
a. Large police presence on school campus b. Expand access to counseling, anger management and peer mediation c. Video cameras and metal detectors d. Eliminate all electronic media access in school
You are visiting a school in the week before classes are to begin. Most of the teachers have already set up their rooms for the students who will soon arrive. You look through the open doorway into one room and notice that there are open areas, with small groups of chairs arranged around tables in a number of separate areas. Off to one side there is an area with two computers and in a corner
there is a circular rug with a small, but colorful and attractive collection of books. From your observation, you are able to predict that the teacher in that room perceives learners to be A) passive. B) active. C) neutral. D) obedient.
Discuss the current status of suicide among children and youth. What gender, ethnic group, and high-risk groups are most affected?
What will be an ideal response?
Pure-tone audiometry establishes
A) detection and understanding of speech. B) threshold for hearing at various frequencies. C) kinds of hearing tests to be used. D) presence of the Moro reflex.