Performance assessments are commonly used in nursing programs. Each performance can be considered an item. The test developers decided to compare 0-1 scores (correct procedure vs. incorrect procedure) for beginners and intermediates in the program with those who passed the final exam as a way to study item characteristics. Which item analysis procedure(s) could be used with such data?
a. A: Item Difficulty B: Item Discrimination
b. A only
c. B only
d. A and B
e. Neither
Question 2
Which of the following statements about goal-attainment grading is most defensible?
A. Because students' effort plays such a pivotal role in a student's ultimate learning, all goal-attainment grading must include a provision for incorporating students' levels of effort.
B. Given its focus on students' mastery of curricular-targets, goal-attainment grading essentially precludes the possibility of teachers' measuring students' affective dispositions.
C. Because of the centrality of curricular aims in any goal-attainment conception of grading, the curricular targets being sought should be carefully described to students' parents and to students themselves at grading time.
D. If a teacher can collect defensible assessment evidence of a student's mastery of the teacher's designated curricular aims, then this evidence should be the only basis for goal-attainment grading.
An individual's performance can be limited by environmental conditions, such as temperature. Ac
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