The Relation of Item Difficulty and Inter-Item Correlation to Test Variance and Reliability  

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Gulliksen, Harold

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Psychometrika: A Journal of Quantitative Psychology vol. 10 no. 2 (Jun. 1945), page 79-91.
Topik: Difficulty; Inter-Item Correlation; Test Variance; Reliability
Fulltext: The Relation of Item Difficulty and Inter-Item Correlation to Test Variance and Reliability.pdf (546.03KB)

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Under assumptions that will hold for the usual test situation, it is proved that test reliability and variance increase (a) as the average inter-item correlation increases, and (b) as the variance of the item difficulty distribution decreases. As the average item variance increases, the test variance will increase, but the test reliability will not be affected. (It is noted that as the average item variance increases, the average item difficulty approaches .50). In this development, no account is taken of the effect of chance success, or the possible effect on student attitude of different item difficulty distributions. In order to maximize the reliability and variance of a test, the items should have high intercorrelations, all items should be of the same difficulty level, and the level should be as near to 50% as possible.

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