ANALYSIS OF TEST ITEMS ON DIFFICULTY LEVEL AND DISCRIMINATION INDEX IN THE TEST FOR RESEARCH IN EDUCATION

Abstract

This piece of work was aimed to analyze test items of a researcher made test in the subject of Research in Education for the student-teachers of Master of Education (M.Ed). It involves the item difficulty and item discrimination. A test of multiple choice items was used as a data collection instrument in different Colleges of Education to 200 student teachers taken randomly. The sample for this study consisted of both gender. The findings show that most of the items were falling in acceptable range of difficulty and discrimination level however some items were rejected due to their to poor discrimination index.