Analysis of Achievement Tests in Secondary Chemistry and Biology
Keywords:
achievement test in chemistry; achievement test in biologyAbstract
The study analyzes the performances of students in a regular high school,
a special education school and a special science high school of different regions in
the division achievement tests in Chemistry for school year 2009-2010. It also
identifies the content of the division achievement tests in chemistry as well as in
biology. The biology achievement test serves as a benchmark on how sophomores
are being prepared, prior to taking a chemistry course. Test items in the division
achievement tests are classified according to the level of thinking being developed.
Difficulty indices for each item in the Chemistry achievement tests are also
determined. The study found out that both Chemistry and Biology achievement
tests focus on factual knowledge which promotes lower order thinking skills. It also
found out that the special school and regular high school’s performances in the
achievement test still fit a bell-shaped normal curve while a special science high
school has a skewed to the right curve. Performances of students are also affected
by face validity.
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