This document contains an achievement test given to students to assess their knowledge of grammar concepts like nouns, pronouns, adjectives, prepositions, verbs, and conjunctions. It provides the answers from 10 students and calculates the difficulty and discrimination indices for each test item to analyze item performance and identify questions that may need improvement. The analysis found that question 2 was the easiest, question 9 was the most difficult and had negative discrimination, and question 9 would be prioritized for elimination.

1. Subject :- Research Methodology in Education
Assignment No. 3
Preparing a tool for data collection (item writing, experts opinions, item
editing, tryout on 10)
ACHIEVEMENT TEST:- MARKS-
30
Question 1-Instructions to the class: Circle the nouns in these sentences.
(5 marks)
1. The cat and the dog were playing in the park.
2. Sheela went to see the Happy New Year at the theater.
3. Love and peace are better than hate and war.
4. Chota Bhim is my favorite show on television.
5. Imagica is a fun place to be with my friends and parents
Question 2-Instructions to the class: From the choices provided after each
sentence select a pronoun that would correctly complete the sentence
(5 marks)
1. Be sure that everyone brings ____________ own book.
HIS OR HER
THEIR
2. Most of the workers were wearing ____________ hard hats.
HIS OR HER
THEIR
3. It's always best for a student to ask questions when ____________ doesn't
understand a problem.
SHE
THEY
4. The children in that neighbourhood often ride ____________ bikes through the
park.
HIS OR HER
THEIR

2. 5. Both of the bicycles in the garage ____________ broken.
IS
ARE
Question 3-Match out the pair (Adjectives) (5 marks)
1. beach
2. Healthy
3. Perfumed
4. Slow
5. metallic
car
turtle
sandy
meal
shirt
Question 4- Cross out the wrong word (Prepositions) (Any 2) (2
marks)
1. On/own/in- our own
2. From/him/his the president
3. in/on/upon the table
4. on/but/into the dark
5. in/if/over the river
Question 4- Find the adjective in the first sentence and fill in the blanks with
the corresponding adverb. (any 3) (3
marks)
1. Jay is careful. He drives .
2. The girl is slow. She walks .
3. Our teacher is angry. She shouts______.
4. He is a bad writer. He writes_______ .
5. Ahmed is a nice guitar player. He plays the guitar ______
Question 5-Change the verb & write it. (any 2) (2 marks)
1) She__________ (bring) some chocolates to the party.
2) I__________ (hear) a new song on the radio.
3) I _________ (forget) to buy some milk.

3. 4) You ________ (lose) your keys last week.
5) He ______ (tell) me that he lived in Kalyan.
Question 6-Choose the correct conjunction. (Any 3) ( 3 marks)
1. I need to work hard ___________ I can pass the exam.
2. _______ he was very ill, he didn't take any medicine.
3. She went to the shops __________ couldn't find anything that could fit her
needs.
4. Everybody likes him because he is nice _________ helpful.
5. Keep quiet ________ go out
Question 7-Complete these sentences with suitable interjections (Hurray!,
Hallo!,Oh!,Hush!Aha!.)
(5 marks)
1.__________ We have won the match.
2.__________ Where are you going now?
3.__________ What a beautiful color?
4.__________ I hear some one coming
5.__________ What a place
Item Analysis Worksheet
Ten students have taken an objective assessment. The quiz contained 10 questions. In the
table below, the students’ scores have been listed from high to low (Joe, Dave, Sujie,
Darrell, and Eliza are in the upper half). There are five students in the upper half and five
students in the lower half. The number “1” indicates a correct answer on the question; a “0”
indicates an incorrect answer.
Stude
nt
Name
Total
Score
(%)
Questions
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Joe 100 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Dave 90 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1
Sujie 80 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0
Darrel
l
70 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1
Eliza 70 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1
Zoe 60 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0
Grace 60 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1
Hanna
h
50 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0

4. Ricky 40 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Anita 30 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
Calculate the Difficulty Index (p) and the Discrimination Index (D).
Item
# Correct
(Upper
group)
# Correct
(Lower
group)
Difficult
y (p)
Discrimination
(D)
Question 1 4 2 0.6 0.4
Question 2 5 5 1.0 0
Question 3 4 4 0.8 0
Question 4 4 1 0.5 0.6
Question 5 5 2 0.8 0.6
Question 6 5 3 0.8 0.4
Question 7 4 1 0.5 0.6
Question 8 4 2 0.6 0.4
Question 9 1 3 0.3 -0.4
Question 10 4 2 0.6 0.4
Answer the following questions:
1.Which question was the easiest? Question #2 (p=1.0)
2. Which question was the most difficult? Question #9 (p=.03 – only 30% of the
students got it correct)
3. Which item has the poorest discrimination? Question #9 (D=-0.4 – it has
negative discrimination – the lower students were more likely to get it correct)
4. Which questions would you eliminate first (if any) – why? Question #9 –
because of the negative discrimination.