Crescentini, Alberto and Zanolla, Giovanna (2013) The evaluation of mathematical competence: elaboration of a standardized test in Ticino (Southern Switzerland). In: International Conference on Education & Educational Psychology 2013 (ICEEPSY 2013), 2-5 October, Antalya, Turkey. (Submitted)
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Since 2010 a project with the aim of producing and administering a standardized test (Woolfolk, 2007) to evaluate mathematical competencies in the fourth class of primary school has been running in Ticino. In order to produce the test, several steps were necessary: a team first identified the areas of the mathematical program to be tested; second, a group of primary and lower secondary school teachers, discipline experts and teachers of didactics of mathematics produced items consistent with the aim and with the characteristics of students and school programs: third, the items produced were tested on a sample of students to evaluate the discriminative capacities of the items; fourth, a preliminary analysis of the items was carried out; fifth, the test was produced and administered to the whole population of students. In the fourth phase we used the classical Rasch model (1960) to evaluate and select the items; the ConQuest software was used for the analysis. Every teacher received a report on his or her own class that allowed identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the class for each part of the tested program. This is the first time that tests of this type are produced in Ticino for the primary school.
| Item Type: | Article in conference proceedings or Presentation at a conference (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Test competencies, item response theory, standardized tests, evaluation |
| Subjects: | Education > Research & study skills in education |
| Department/unit: | Dipartimento formazione e apprendimento / Alta scuola pedagogica > Centro competenze innovazione e ricerca sui sistemi educativi |
| Depositing User: | Giovanna Zanolla |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Jul 2013 08:35 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jul 2013 08:35 |
| URI: | http://repository.supsi.ch/id/eprint/2652 |
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