You are a member of a 3-person educational team that has developed a competency test that uses 50 multiple choice test questions to determine the knowledge and skill level of learners. After 30 learners have completed the competency test, the team conducted an item analysis. From the results, there...
NR 537 Week 4 Scholarly Discussion: Item Analysis
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You are a member of a 3-person educational team that has developed a competency test
that uses 50 multiple choice test questions to determine the knowledge and skill level of
learners. After 30 learners have completed the competency test, the team conducted an
item analysis. From the results, there are 10 questions that are identified as being
problematic. One of the educators wants to consider each of these questions individually
to see if one or more of the questions should be removed from the test. However, a
second educator is strongly against this by stating, "This is a competency test; it has
validity because we wrote it—the test questions should not be altered. The grade on the
examination should stand!" The third educator wants to remove the ten questionable
items from the test and raise all learners' scores. For the educator in professional
nursing development, this will result in staff nurses who have failed the exam being
placed on performance improvement plans and possible dismissal from the agency. For
the educator in the academic setting, the learner will not be allowed to progress to the
next course, must repeat the current course, and may be dismissed from the academic
program.
What quantitative and qualitative information would you provide in order to
assist these educators to consider the quality of the test questions?
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