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Question 1: Why is it important for a teacher to analyse each of the test item?
1. Fix marks for current class that just wrote the test
o find flaws in the test so that you can adjust the mark before return to
students
o
can find questions with two right answers, or that were too hard, etc., that
you may want to drop from the exam
will tell which questions they were are all guessing on, or if you find a
questions which most of them found very difficult, you can reteach that
concept
can't tell this just from score on total test, or class average
Individual level:
o
after you've planned these tests, written perfect questions, and now
analyzed the results, you're going to know more about these kids than
they know themselves
know what class average will be before you even give the test
because you will know approximately how difficult each item
is before you use it;
once you start bringing out all these impressive looking stats parents and
administrators will believe that maybe you do know what you're talking
about when you fail students...
and if the analysis shows that the question does stink, you've already
dropped it before you've handed it back to the student, let alone the parent
seeing it.