How does D2L calculate discrimination indexes?
How does D2L calculate discrimination indexes for quiz questions? I'm analyzing question responses from D2L and some recorded elsewhere for which I need to calculate discrimination indexes the same way that D2L calculates them.
Thank you very much!
Faye
Georgia State University, borthick@gsu.edu
Answers
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Hi Faye,
Discrimination Index: This calculates any possible discrimination in the question between the higher and lower performing learners by subtracting the question's lower 27% from its upper 27%. The higher the difference, the better the question discriminates between high and low performing learners. A negative value indicates that more low performing learners are correctly answering the question than high performing learners. This would most likely indicate a flawed quiz question.
You can find more information in this article
Best Regards,
Victor