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TUTORIAL TASK
Interpreting Test Scores and Item Analysis
Question 1-Measures of Central Tendencies
Calculate the mean, median and mode of the following
a) 46,45,45,43,42,41,40,37,32,31,29,28,25,22,19(n=15)
b) 45,50,60,32,67,89,56,76,90,78,45,32,45,66,56(n=15)
Answer
1(a)
Mean
19+22+25+28+29+31+32+37+40+41+42+43+45+45+46
15
525 =35
15

Median
xm = x 15+1 = 16 = 8 = 37
2
2

Mode

45
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1 (b)
Mean
32+32+45+45+45+50+56+56+60+66+67+76+78+89+90
15
887 = 59.13
15
Median
xm = x 15+1 = 16 = 8 = 56
2
2

Mode
32, 45, 56

Question 2

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Measures of Dispersion
- Calculate the range and standard deviation of the following scores:
CANDIDATES A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
MARKS
!3
11
7
13
11
4
9
11

I
13

Answer

Mean
13 11 7 13 11 4 9 11 13 18
10

110
10

x
13
11
7
13
11
4
9
11
13
18
m = 11

(x-m)2
4
0
16
4
0
49
4
0
4
49
S ( x-m )2
6
130 = 13
10
s.d = 3.6

Question 3
Quantitative Item Analysis

= 11 Mean

J
18

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Look at the information on the following items, item X, Y, Z

ITEM X
ITEM Y
OPTION
A
B
C*
D A*
B
C
D
UPPER
1
0
11 3 4
1
5
4
LOWER
2
0
7
6 1
7
3
3
Find out

ITEM Z
A
B*
3
4
0
10

C
3
2

D
5
3

a) What is the difficulty level?

ITEM X
18 = 0.6
30

ITEM Y
5 = 0.16
30

ITEM Z
14 = 0.46
30

b) What is the discrimination index?

ITEM X
11 - 7 = 0.13
30

ITEM Y
4 1 = 0.1
30

ITEM Z
4 10 = - 0.2
30

c) Should this item be eliminated?

Yes, these three items should be eliminated especially Item Z. They completely not
discriminate as well as an item with an index of 0.6 or 0.7.

d) Should any distractor be eliminated or modified?

No, because without distractor, the item will not really challenge the students
abilities and instead of eliminating the distractor, teacher can minimize distractions in
each item.