Objective Tests and Their Discriminating Power in Business Courses: a Case Study
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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 atinvestigating students overall performance and the discriminating power of particular tests items in the contextof business courses. The purpose of this paper is to contribute with this issue while analyzing it, with scientificapproach, from an accounting information systems standpoint: two experiments based on a databasemanagement system (DBMS) undergraduate course, involving 66 and 62 students (experiments E1 and E2,respectively). The discriminant analysis generated discriminant functions with high canonical correlations (E1=0.898 and E2= 0.789). As a result, high percentages of original grouped cases were 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 is possible todiscriminate 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, areable to analyze and act towards improving their assessment methods, to be of minimum influence whileevaluating students performance. 2005 artículo científico 1807-7692 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=84120206 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=841 BAR - Brazilian Administration Review application/pdf Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração BAR - Brazilian Administration Review (Brasil) Num.2 Vol.2 |
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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 atinvestigating students overall performance and the discriminating power of particular tests items in the contextof business courses. The purpose of this paper is to contribute with this issue while analyzing it, with scientificapproach, from an accounting information systems standpoint: two experiments based on a databasemanagement system (DBMS) undergraduate course, involving 66 and 62 students (experiments E1 and E2,respectively). The discriminant analysis generated discriminant functions with high canonical correlations (E1=0.898 and E2= 0.789). As a result, high percentages of original grouped cases were 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 is possible todiscriminate 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, areable to analyze and act towards improving their assessment methods, to be of minimum influence whileevaluating students performance. 2005 artículo científico 1807-7692 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=84120206 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=841 BAR - Brazilian Administration Review application/pdf Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração BAR - Brazilian Administration Review (Brasil) Num.2 Vol.2 |
| 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 |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=84120206 |