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Item Analysis Skills
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The Item Analysis section is intended to explain and examine the components of item analysis. The site is designed to offer resources and examples as to how specific item analysis can be used in order to improve proficiency testing outcomes. This site is especially helpful for teachers looking to better understand item analysis, as well as teachers who want to be on the cutting edge of how to improve test scores. Understanding item analysis will enable teachers to better formulate a curriculum that will help meet students' needs for proficiency testing.
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How Teachers Can Use Item Analysis
- Understanding which areas on the particular test being examined were most missed will help you, as a teacher, begin to see how to adapt your current teaching practices. By looking at the item analysis, you will be better able to choose topics in your classroom that reflect the ideas presented on the test. Then, students will be better prepared to take the test. This site provides a sample item analysis sheet and more information on item analysis.
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Examples of Ways Others Use Item Analysis
- These quotations are from teachers who are actively involved in preparing their students for the proficiency tests. These teachers have used item analysis skills in order to adapt their current teaching practices into what best fits the needs of their students.
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Standardized Testing Websites
- These sites are helpful to look through in order to understand the basis for the particular standardized test and the means for scoring. Understanding the background of the standardized test allows better understanding of the future item analysis report.
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Tips for Teachers
- Once you receive your item analysis, you will most likely want to adapt your teaching practices to better equip your students. Listed here are some suggestions and links for implementing practices after you receive your item analysis
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The Ohio Achievement Test
- Contains the answers to frequently asked questions by families and educators concerning the Ohio Achievement Test. Resources, a glossary of terms, testing vocabulary, and pre-test physical preparations are also provided.
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