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A Rasch Analysis of Math Testsusing M.In.E.R.Va. Platform

Grazia Messineo - Salvatore Vassallo

ICETC2014

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General frameThe Web Platform

The problem

Students must achieve some automatism in eachdiscipline to succeedMany students have difficulties in Mathematics(see Ocse-Pisa reports)Traditional ways (courses) to help students aredifficult to implement, also because of their costs

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Goals

To help students to recover their deficiencies in adisciplineTo provide teachers a tool to assign common orpersonalized tasks to studentsTo provide teachers a tool to automatically verifystudents’ achievements

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The structure: contents

Theoretical schemes to strengthen or createknowledgeGuided exercises to illustrate the correct way forsolving the problemsConsolidation and self-assessment exercisesPerformance assessment exercises

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The structure: feedback

Assignment of a scoreAutomatic answers correctionHint to get a solutionReferences to theoretical contentSolution (complete or in partial form)

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How it works

The software consists of some LATEX files: Thepackage minerva, the master files, and the files ofthe exercisesEach file of exercises contains one or morevariants of a basic exerciseThe output is a pdf file with interactive contentmanaged by Javascript

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Advantages

Possibility of being used offlineWide range of exercises:

Multiple choice testsOpen questions (with powerful automaticcomputation)Multiple answers questions (with different marksfor any question)

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Advantages

Use without installing any additional applicationExcellent display of mathematical textIndependence from operating systemAbility to use the same tool in different situationsand disciplines

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The generation of a test

A variant is randomly chosenVariants are randomly scrambledAnswers are shuffledValues are assigned to random parametersA test is produced (PDF file)

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General frameThe Web Platform

The url: http://progettominerva.unicatt.it

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Students’ interface - 1

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Students’ interface - 2

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Teachers’ interface - 1

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Results

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Initial dataIndividual AnalysisDifferential Analysis

Secondary Schools

Trial has been going on since school year 2011-12Results before and after the use of the tool

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University

Trial started in February 2014Students can perform exercises and studytheoretical material onlineA group gives a part of the final exam online:figure shows positive marks.

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Rasch model

Mathematical model to compute the probability𝑝𝑖𝑗 that the subject 𝑖 with ability 𝜃𝑖 answerscorrectly to question 𝑗 with difficulty 𝛽𝑗Rasch measure based on the difference 𝜃𝑖 − 𝛽𝑗Data collected in a raw score matrix: 𝑛 rows(subjects) and 𝑚 columns (items)Conversion of values of measures of ability anddifficulty into a common scale (logit)

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The analysis performed in 2014

Data collected from a test of MathematicsTwo sets of students: 20 of Catholic Universityand 16 of a Secondary SchoolQuestionnaire with 16 multiple choice questions,8 on derivatives and 8 on domains

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Initial dataIndividual AnalysisDifferential Analysis

Summary Statistics

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Summary Statistics interpretation

For students: separation index lower than 2 andreliability index lower than 0.8

→ more items maybe needed for a better separation of ability levels(actually we can divide the sample into 3 levels)For items: separation index lower 3 and reliabilityindex lower than 0.9 → the students’ sample isnot large enough to confirm the item difficultyscale.

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Summary Statistics interpretation

For students: separation index lower than 2 andreliability index lower than 0.8→ more items maybe needed for a better separation of ability levels(actually we can divide the sample into 3 levels)

For items: separation index lower 3 and reliabilityindex lower than 0.9 → the students’ sample isnot large enough to confirm the item difficultyscale.

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Initial dataIndividual AnalysisDifferential Analysis

Summary Statistics interpretation

For students: separation index lower than 2 andreliability index lower than 0.8→ more items maybe needed for a better separation of ability levels(actually we can divide the sample into 3 levels)For items: separation index lower 3 and reliabilityindex lower than 0.9

→ the students’ sample isnot large enough to confirm the item difficultyscale.

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Initial dataIndividual AnalysisDifferential Analysis

Summary Statistics interpretation

For students: separation index lower than 2 andreliability index lower than 0.8→ more items maybe needed for a better separation of ability levels(actually we can divide the sample into 3 levels)For items: separation index lower 3 and reliabilityindex lower than 0.9 → the students’ sample isnot large enough to confirm the item difficultyscale.

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Person-Item Distribution Map

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Initial dataIndividual AnalysisDifferential Analysis

Person-Item Distribution Map

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Person-Item Distribution Map

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Initial dataIndividual AnalysisDifferential Analysis

Person-Item Distribution Map

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Person-Item Distribution Map interpretation

students’ ability is on the left, from highest (top)to lowest (bottom);items are on the right, ordered by difficulty, frommost difficult to easiest;both are measured on the same scale;average of difficulty of items is set equal to 0;students’ mean value is 0.12 → students’performance is a little above the expectedperformance.

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Guttman Scalogram

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Initial dataIndividual AnalysisDifferential Analysis

Guttman Scalogram

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Guttman Scalogram

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Initial dataIndividual AnalysisDifferential Analysis

Guttman Scalogram

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Guttman Scalogram interpretation

𝐴 → unexpected correct answer@ → unexpected wrong answerhelps identify “lucky guesses” and other patternsof response

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Item Category/Option/Distractor Frequencies

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Scatterplot

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Scatterplot interpretation

Comparison of performance in the two groupsoutliers are the items outside the two bands thatrepresent the limits of the confidence interval(95%)DOM20 is significatively more difficult forUniversity studentsDER15 is significatively more difficult forSecondary School students

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Initial dataIndividual AnalysisDifferential Analysis

THANK YOU

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DIF Plot for students

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DIF Plot - interpretation

Plot shows the average difference for each groupbetween the observed and expected responseDER15, DER03, DOM20 show significativedifferences in the two groups

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Scatterplot Female-Male

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DIF Plot for items

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