A Development of Series of Mathematics Tests for Elementary Students in order to Detact the Learning Status Point along a Hierachical Learning Concepts (Second State Study)
Abstract:
The Objective of this research was to construct the Mathematics Tests in Elementary Level of Education. it was expected that the difficulties of the items could be ordered from the easiest to the most difficulty. Six ablilities consisted of addition, substraction, multiplication, division, fraction and decimal were studied. The tests were devided into 4 subtest using the Anchor Test concept. There were 30, 32, 35, and 38 items in each subtest respectively.
Samples were 2601 students in Surin Province from grade 3 to grade 6 in 1993 academic year. Students studying in grade 3 to grade 6 were asked to do subtest 1 to subtest 4 respectively.
From data analysis, It was revealed that the order of items difficulties in each ability analysing according to The Item Response Theory and the order of item difficulties from the research\' s hypothesis was very similar. The research results showed that it was possible to apply the idea of hierachical order in item difficulties to buiid tests in Mathematics in Elementary Level of Education and the Item Response Theory could be use as a tool to validate the construct. The error of wrong answer in each ability in each subtest using Guttnan\' s scale concept was lower than 40% of all errors. The ability in division in grad 3 and 4, ability in fraction and decimal in grade 5 and 6 were lower than 60% of all scores in each of these ability.