أثر البديل "جميع ما سبق" على الخصائص السيكومترية للاختبار التحصيلي ذي الاختيار من متعدد

Abstract EN

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of the use of the alternative "All the above" on the characteristics of the psychometric (Validity and Reliability) to the multiple-choice achievement test in the field of Mathematics and the characteristics of its items (difficulty and discrimination) and also distinguish the differences of both test models, as well to detecting the effect of the alternative "All the above" on the indexes of both stability of internal consistency and the validity of the collaterally test.

The study population consisted of intermediate students in the third grade (1439/ 1440) in the schools of the Education Administration in Makkah city which their number reached (40756) students distributed over(161) school.

The sample of the study consisted of (500) students distributed over (12) schools.

The sample was selected by the random stratified method.

Achievement test was constructed for the third grade intermediate students in three semesters of mathematics.

The final test consisted of (34) item of four alternatives in two models of the test.

The first model did not include alternatives of its alternative paragraphs "All the above", but the second model included alternatives of its alternative paragraphs "All the above".

The two models were applied to a sample of study with (250) students per model.

After statistical analysis treatment of the data, the results of the study were as follows: There are statistically significant differences between the indexes of the difficulty of multiple choice items due to the test model which include the alternative "All the above".

And there are no statistically significant differences between the Discrimination indexes of the multiple-choice items attributed to the two test models.

And there are no statistically significant differences between the two indexes of the Reliability of internal consistency for both tests attributed to the two test models.

And there are no statistically significant differences between the two indexes of the validity of the collaterality test for both tests attributed to the two test models.

On the basis of these results, this study came out with a set of recommendations, including: Prefer not to use when writing items of multiple choice type because it makes the test more difficult.

Constructing diagnostic tests to compare the psychometric characteristics of the test (Validity and Reliability) and its items (difficulty and discrimination), which deal with the use of the achievment "All the above" in the multiple choice paragraphs of other materials.