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Do the questions and tests generated from ontologies have satisfactory difficulty, discrimination and reliability values?
First, it assesses the auto-generated questions' difficulty, discrimination, and reliability using two statistical methods: Classical Test Theory (CTT) and Item Response Theory (IRT).
Question's difficulty, discrimination, and reliability values depend on the sample of students and the ability of students depends on the assessment test.
This experiment aims to answer two main questions: 1. Do the questions and tests generated from ontologies have satisfactory difficulty, discrimination and reliability values? 2.
It would be expected that using the three-parameter logistic IRT (difficulty, discrimination, and guessing), CATSIB could accurately and consistently detect DIF on an MSCAT of English proficiency among different focal and reference groups.
However, Taguchi et al. did not report reliability coefficients for their instrument, nor did they provide individual item statistics (e.g., difficulty, discrimination, and fit statistics) and results of the distractor analysis.
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