Paper Info
Title
Measuring the Difficulty of Test Items in Computing Science Education.
Abstract
This paper describes a communication-based approach for measuring the difficulty of test items used in computing science education, specifically, in first course in computer programming language. The assessment process is viewed here as a bi-directional and cyclical communication process, which consists of participants assuming the roles of senders and receivers, who are sending messages through channels. Thus, the difficulty of test items can be described from four perspectives: (1) message sender (test designer/teacher), (2) message receiver (student), (3) message (set of linguistic components), and (4) channel (medium for the message). These perspectives and related types of measurements were explored in an empirical study, and the preliminary results are presented in this paper. Analysis of the results shows that a communication-centered approach offers a broader view of the assessment process, reveals its multi-dimensionality, and captures new aspects of the testsu0027 difficulty -- for example, time constraints.
Year
Venue
Field
2016
WCCCE
Computer science,Communication channel,Communication source,Multimedia,Empirical research
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
1
0.36
References 
Authors
3
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mila Kwiatkowska1124.05