English Education: English Journal for Teaching and Learning
Vol 12, No 2 (2024): Volume 12 No.02 December 2024

Personal Fabricated-English Items’ Quality: Classical Test and Item Response Theories

Siregar, Try Mahendra (Unknown)
Nasution, Riandry Fadilah (Unknown)
A’la, Putri Nurul (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
23 Dec 2024

Abstract

Item Analysis is used to determine the quality of test items, whether applicable or not applicable for the test takers’ ability assessment. Owing to that, our research attempts to measure the quality of personal fabricated English items for 8th grade students under the Classical Test Theory (CTT) and Item Response Theory (IRT) by Rasch models. We adopted reliability, item difficulty, discrimination power, and distractor effectivity, following to both theories. Overall, 30 items with multiple-choice format were handed out to 46 students. The items were analyzed quantitatively by deploying the Quest.exe application. The results showed that the items are reliable with 0.69 CTT and 1.0 IRT values, and the item difficulties are also varied: 12, 14, and 4 based on CTT categorizations and index easy, moderate, and difficult, while IRT demonstrated similar results. There is only 1 item inadequate to differentiate students’ ability, and this item required a revision; furthermore, 17 out of 30 items have effective distractors. This research is expected to contribute to Item analysis and Quest.exe demonstration for the same purposes.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

EEJ

Publisher

Subject

Education

Description

English Education: English Journal for Teaching and Learning which is later called EEJ is a journal published by Tarbiyah and Teacher Training Faculty UIN Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan every June and December. The journal is dedicated to original research on the teaching and learning ...