TY - JOUR
T1 - Two-tier multiple-choice questions as a means of increasing discrimination
T2 - Case-study of a basic electric circuits course
AU - Gero, Aharon
AU - Stav, Yinnon
AU - Wertheim, Irit
AU - Epstein, Ariel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© WIETE 2019
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - One of the widely used tools for summative assessment in engineering education is the multiple-choice test. A two-tier multiple-choice question, in which the first item is a fact-based question and the second item is a reasoning-based question, permits higher-order thinking skills to be evaluated. The study described in this article characterised the discrimination level of two-tier multiple-choice questions in the final examination of the course, Electric Circuit Theory, intended for sophomore electrical engineering students. Six hundred and thirty-two students from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, participated in the study. According to the findings, the discrimination level of two-tier multiple-choice questions is good and higher (with large effect size) than that of their one-tier counterparts.
AB - One of the widely used tools for summative assessment in engineering education is the multiple-choice test. A two-tier multiple-choice question, in which the first item is a fact-based question and the second item is a reasoning-based question, permits higher-order thinking skills to be evaluated. The study described in this article characterised the discrimination level of two-tier multiple-choice questions in the final examination of the course, Electric Circuit Theory, intended for sophomore electrical engineering students. Six hundred and thirty-two students from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, participated in the study. According to the findings, the discrimination level of two-tier multiple-choice questions is good and higher (with large effect size) than that of their one-tier counterparts.
KW - Discrimination
KW - Electric circuit theory
KW - Two-tier multiple-choice questions
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AN - SCOPUS:85069998059
SN - 1328-3154
VL - 21
SP - 139
EP - 144
JO - Global Journal of Engineering Education
JF - Global Journal of Engineering Education
IS - 2
ER -