Objective Tests and Their Discriminating Power in Business Courses: a Case Study
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| author | Edgard B. Cornachione |
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| contents | Objective Tests and Their Discriminating Power in Business Courses: a Case Study Edgard B. Cornachione Administración y Contabilidad assessment performance item analysis Objective tests discriminant analysis Evaluating students´ learning experiences outcomes cannot be considered a simple task. This paper aims at investigatingstudents´ overall performance and the discriminating power of particular tests´ items in the context of business courses. Thepurpose of this paper is to contribute with this issue while analyzing it, with scientific approach, from an accountinginformation systems standpoint: two experiments based on a database management system (DBMS) undergraduate course,involving 66 and 62 students (experiments E1 and E2, respectively). The discriminant analysis generated discriminantfunctions with high canonical correlations (E1= 0.898 and E2= 0.789). As a result, high percentages of original grouped caseswere correctly classified (E1= 98.5% and E2= 95.2%) based on a relatively small number of items: 7 out of 22 items from E1(multiple-choice), and 3 out of 6 from E2 (short-answer). So, with only a few items from the analyzed instruments it ispossible to discriminate good or bad academic performance, and this is a measure of quality of the observed testinginstruments. According to these findings, especially in business area, instructors and institutions, together, are able to analyzeand act towards improving their assessment methods, to be of minimum influence while evaluating students´ performance 2005 artículo científico 1415-6555 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=84009607 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/840/84009607/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/840/84009607/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/840/84009607/84009607.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/840/84009607/movil en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=840 RAC - Revista de Administração Contemporânea application/pdf Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração RAC - Revista de Administração Contemporânea (Brasil) Num.2 Vol.9 |
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| spellingShingle | Objective Tests and Their Discriminating Power in Business Courses: a Case Study Edgard B. Cornachione Administración y Contabilidad assessment performance item analysis Objective tests discriminant analysis Objective Tests and Their Discriminating Power in Business Courses: a Case Study Edgard B. Cornachione Administración y Contabilidad assessment performance item analysis Objective tests discriminant analysis Evaluating students´ learning experiences outcomes cannot be considered a simple task. This paper aims at investigatingstudents´ overall performance and the discriminating power of particular tests´ items in the context of business courses. Thepurpose of this paper is to contribute with this issue while analyzing it, with scientific approach, from an accountinginformation systems standpoint: two experiments based on a database management system (DBMS) undergraduate course,involving 66 and 62 students (experiments E1 and E2, respectively). The discriminant analysis generated discriminantfunctions with high canonical correlations (E1= 0.898 and E2= 0.789). As a result, high percentages of original grouped caseswere correctly classified (E1= 98.5% and E2= 95.2%) based on a relatively small number of items: 7 out of 22 items from E1(multiple-choice), and 3 out of 6 from E2 (short-answer). So, with only a few items from the analyzed instruments it ispossible to discriminate good or bad academic performance, and this is a measure of quality of the observed testinginstruments. According to these findings, especially in business area, instructors and institutions, together, are able to analyzeand act towards improving their assessment methods, to be of minimum influence while evaluating students´ performance 2005 artículo científico 1415-6555 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=84009607 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/840/84009607/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/840/84009607/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/840/84009607/84009607.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/840/84009607/movil en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=840 RAC - Revista de Administração Contemporânea application/pdf Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração RAC - Revista de Administração Contemporânea (Brasil) Num.2 Vol.9 |
| title | Objective Tests and Their Discriminating Power in Business Courses: a Case Study |
| topic | Administración y Contabilidad assessment performance item analysis Objective tests discriminant analysis |
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