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Use JMP Item Analysis Platforms to Detect the Exam Difficulty and Discrimination - (2023-US-30MP-1421)

This project studied JMP Black Belt exam patterns among students to understand exam difficulty and discrimination across platforms in JMP 16. Through preliminary scoring distribution, the instructor can identify each exam question's difficulty and discrimination. The statistical parameters can then be used to determine which questions should be included in which level of examination, such as Green Belt or Black Belt. By comparing three different Black Belt STIPS exams with a dual plot, questions can be designed for different types of exams.

 

The characteristic curves are related the difficulty and discriminatory properties of each question and are then compared with each student’s ability and probability of answering correctly. Dual plots use the same scale to show the relative difficulty for a group of students' capability when answering each question. Parameter estimates are used to measure the difficulty and discrimination of each question. The sample questions in three STIPS exams use four kinds of questions and four levels of difficulty and discrimination. By using JMP Item Analysis platform, instructors can adapt any learning program and their instruction to accommodate different levels of students according to the difficulty and discrimination of test questions.

 

 

Hello,  everyone.

 

My  name  is  Kemp  Wu.  I  come  from  Taiwan,

and  I  work  in  Applied  Material for  Continuous  Improvement  Group.

Today,  I  will  present BB  JMP Exam Item Analysis.

First,  let's  do the  project  adjusted  in  2023.

The  entities  sub way  used  in GB/BB  training  course

is  changed  from  mete r  to  JMP.

To  modify  the  AGU,

GB/BB exam questions based  on  JMP  survey  is  necessary.

In  this  project,  we  use Item  Analysis  to  study  the  2022

BB JMP exam  questions  to  support this  GB/BB exam questions change .

Item analysis  will  help  us  to  identify the  difficulty  and  the  discrimination

of  each  questions. For   GB  we  need  easier  questions

because it is  data  label requirement  for  the  beginner.

We  won't  want  too  many  hard questions  inside   GB exam.

When  we  move  to  BB exam,  the  questions should  be  harder  and  better discriminated.

For  the  last  year,

for  the  three  chapter of  the  BB JMP  training  programs,

we  have,  step  one, is  the  Intermediate  Statistics

and  step  two,  for  the  Graphical  Entity and  step  three  is  MSA,  PCA  and  SPC.

Based  on  that,  we  would  like  to identify  each  questions  difficulty

and  discriminations  and  by  day, if  any  opportunity  to  modify

the  training  material  is  sent questions  based  on  the  NAC  results.

Also  the  capability  of  the  questions to  judge  the  ability  of  the  trainees.

This  is  the  last  year  field JMP insignation  results.

For  the  step  two, is  the  Graphical  Entities.

It's very   basically  for  the  reading, also  the  drawing  for  the  users.

For  the  step  three, is  the  MSA,  PCA  and  SPC.

This  is  more  advantaged.

For  the  best  one, we  got a  more  higher  score  for  the  average.

Then  the  advantage f or  the  statue, the  score  is  more  lower.

If  we  want  to  be  used   the based  on  the  score,

it's  very  difficult  to  separate for  the   GB  or  the   BB,  the  questions.

That's  why  we  come  out. We  need  to  use  the  JMP Item Analysis.

They  can  deliver  more  information for  us  to  do  the  data  analysis

for such  as  the  questions'  difficulty or  the  discriminations.

How  to  use  for  the  JMP  Item  Analysis

application  on  the   GB and  the   BB  installations.

F irst, let's  look  at  the  characteristics  curve.

Characteristics curve control  the  relationship

between  the  probability   of  quality  answers.

The  item  and  the  ability for  different  probability labels

on  the  ability  scope  also  show

correlation  between  for  the  difficulty and  the  discrimination  attributes.

There  are  two  parameters in  the  used  parameters  curve.

First  is  the  a  parameter, is  about  for  the  discriminating  power.

Another  one  is  the  b  parameter,

is  about  the  item  difficulty for  the  left  button  of  the  chart.

For  the   y-axis  is  the  probability

of  the  quality  of  the  answers  from 0-1. One is  meaning  for  the  100%.

For  the  x-axis, is  the  abilities  from  minus 4-plus 4.

More  higher  number is  being  more  difficulty.

Also  more  ability  for  the  center.

For  the  periphery,

if  the  curve  is  more  steepness of  the  curve  it mean  is  more  powerful

for  the  discriminations.

For  the  parameter  b is  above  the  difficulty.

We  can  see  for  this  chart, the  right  hand  side of t his  curve

is  more  difficulty than  the  left  hand  side.

For  example,  the  ability  for  the  deal

to  go  up  to  match  for  the  right  side of the  curve  is  about  just  only

about  the  10%  the  corrected.  If  compared  with  the  left  side

of  the  curve,  it  can  go  to  about 90%  can  be  corrected.

Also  we  look  at  the  example for  the  question  24,

b is  the  vertical  line of  the  preferred  of  the  discriminations.

And  the  right  hand  side for  the  question 12  is  for  the   difficulty,

for  the  terratinous  curve   [inaudible 00:06:28]  curve

from  the  bottom  left to  the  up  of  the  right  side.

Next  we  do  add  the  parameter  estimated.

The  parameter  estimated,   it show  the  item

which  is,  each  of  the  questions showed  by  the  difficulty

and  the  discriminations.

It show  by  the  numbers also  by  the  histogram.

For  the  difficulty, easy  one  is  less  than zero

and  the  hard  questions  is  over  zero.

With  the  discrimination,   it  is  over  plus  and  minus  three.

The up is,  there's  no  discriminations.

This  example  for  our  result for  the  step  one,  we  have  nine  questions

to  show  by  the  parameter  estimated for  each  of  the  number.

Also  for  this  parameter  estimated,

the   number also  will  be  showing in  the  characteristic curve.

We  separate  for  the  three  group

of  the  data  based  on  the  difficulty and  the  discriminations.

For  the   group 1  is  the  green  zone. It is  the  easy  with  no  discriminations.

We  can  see  for  the  red  virtual line , it is  less  than zero .

Even  the  question  is  easy.

Also  with  the  fake  curve,

for  this  blue  curve it  means  is  no  discriminations.

For  another one  is  the   group 2  is  the  easy  with  the  discriminations.

We  can  see  the grey  line is  less  than  the  zero

or  another  one  is  a  vertical  line.

This  show  for  the  over  the  blue  line and here  it  can  be  100%  correct.

If left  lower  than  this  line, it mean is  probably  very  hard  to  have  the  correct.

Next  one  is  the  group four. Group  four  is  the  hard  questions

with  the  discriminations.

We  can  see  the  ability  is  over  the  needle.

It  also  showed  the  virtual  line for  the  blue  curve.

It says  group 1  have  no  sample so  we  didn't  find  out  there's  any  show

by  the  glossary.

Next  we  will  go  for  the  Dual  Plot. The   Dual Plot  report  contain  a  plot

that  show  question  difficulty and  the  student  ability  in  the  same  scale.

I t  will show  on  the  Y  scale for  the  ability  from  minus  4- four.

There  are  some  three  zones.

The  first  zone  is  this  area. This  is  about  the  question  difficult.

More  higher  it  being the  question  is  more  difficult

and  more  lower  it being the  question  is  more  easier.

Another  one  in  the  middle  zone is  for  the  student  ability.

More  higher  it being the  student  have  more  ability

and  more  lower it being  the  student has  low  ability.

How  to  compare  with  the  question difficulty  and  the  student  ability?

For  example,  the   student 2 to  compare  with  the  question  28

because  the  student is  more  higher  than  the  question  28.

The   student 2  he  have  more probability  to  answer  correct  questions.

The  obvious  is  for  the   student 1. Student 1  compared  with  the  question  15.

It  means  the   student 1 is  very  hard  to  correct  the  answers.

A lso  for  this  one  is,  the  right  zone is  for  the  group  shown  by  the  histogram

is  shown  for  the  two  group  of  the  student.

From  minus   2-0  is  one  group and  zero -2  is  another  group.

For  this  example, it  show  for  the  two  bimodal  more

the  upper  zero  is  for  the  G B and  the  lower zero  is  for  the  BB exam .

Another  one  is  the  group three STIPS  descent  result

to  show  by  the  dual  plot.

First  we  go  for  the  cell  plot  to  see the  reference  for  each  questions.

For  x-axis  is  for  each  questions and  y-axis  for  each  of  the  students.

For  the  red  color,  it  means the  answer  is  right,

and  for  the  blue color  the  answer  is  wrong.

We  come  to  see  the  dual  part.

For  the  step  one  you  show  the  pattern  is…

We  see  the  student  number  5 is  more  high  performance  than  others.

Step  two  they  have too  good  of  the  students.

Step  three,

this  group  of  students all better  than  zero  and  also  show

the  students  six  is  not  that  good,

but  if  compared  with  the  student  1 you  have  very  long  difference.

It  means  the   student 1  is  the  outlier.

From  this  we  have  four way  for  the  improvements.

The  first  is  we  can  base  on  the ability  zero  to  separate  the  upper  side

is  for  the   GB  and  the  lower  list  zero is  for  the   BB itself.

Second,  we  can  base  on  the  discrimination to  show a  different  kind  of  happen

like   state 1  we  can  find the  most  performance  student.

For  the   state 2  we  can  separate from  the  people  have  good  study

or  no  study  for  the  same.

The  third  one  is  the  question difficulty  such  as  this  question.

None  of  the  students  can  be correctly  to  answer  this  question.

Maybe  there's  a  material need  to  be  improved

or  some  area we  didn't  teach  for  the  students.

The  last  one  is  we  also  can  find

who  is  the  student  need  to  have more  extra  coach  such  as  the   student 1,

is  [inaudible 00:15:05] .

Maybe  we  need  to  pay more  attention  on  him.

All  of  the  essential can  be  decided  by  you.

You  can  see  from  the  door  part  to  see if  the  ascent  achieve  your  expectations.

Now  I  will  show  you  the  real  case  on the  issue  of  the  group  of  the  questions.

The   group 1 is  the  easy  with  no  discrimination.

This  is  the  question  of  this

and  this  the  issue  of  the session  or  the  answers?

For  this  question  the  answer  is  D.

It  is  very  easy and  simple  for  the  JMP  operations

and  it  can  be  found in  the  training  material.

You  can  see  for  the  cell  plot, most  of  people  are say  correct

and  another  one  is  the  group  2 is  the  easy  with  these   questions.

Is  about  for  the  parallel  part and  the  answer  is  B,  negative  correlation.

Even  this  parallel  part  is  easy but  if  the  student,

they  don't  really  understand how  to  read  the  parallel  part,

they  cannot  understand how  to  say  the correct  answers.

We  are  going  to  see  the  group  3 with  no  discriminations.

This  question  is  hard also  in  the  training  material

is  the  guide  the  way let  you  to  say  the  answer  D.

We  can  see  most  of  people are  saying  wrong  for  these  questions.

Maybe  we  need  to  reconsider  is  there  any training  material  need  to  be  corrected?

For  another  one, the group  4, hard  with  the  discrimination  questions.

Even  that's  all  the  question.

It  looks  very  similar  and  hard  to   decide.

But  if  we  pay  attention on  the  case  or  making  the  nose,

you  will  understand the  answer  is  the  B.

From  the  item  analysis  we  can  be analyzed  for  the  issue  of  question

for  the  difficulty  and  discriminations to  dive  into  for  good  of  the  questions

for  the  continuing improvement  opportunity.

According  for  good  of  the  questions,

we  can  deliver  for  the   GB and  the   BB  proposal.

For  the   GB  we  will  consider for  the  30%  for  the  easy

and  the  no  discrimination  for  basically questions  for  the  students

and  for  60%  for  the  easy and  with  the  discrimination  to  separate

the  student who  has  studied  and  not  studied.

Also,  we  consider  10%  for  the high- performance  student

and  for  the   BB  we  are  not considered  for  the  best  questions

for  the   BB  due  to  you  need  to  be  more

difficulty  and  we  consider  30% for  the  easy  with   discrimination,

not  every  question  need  to  be  hard and  also  for  the  70%  for  the  hard

with  the  discriminations but  we  not  consider

for  the  difficulty  and  the  discrimination

and  the  duration  of  the  questions is  for  the  reference.

Of  course, it  depends  on  the  ascent  requirement

to  adjust the  percentage  for  the  ascent.

Last  I  will  be  talking  about for  the  takeaway  learning

the  JMP  item  analyze  can  help  to  organize GB  and BB exam  questions  based  on JMP.

The  item  analyze  help  to  detect  difficulty and  discrimination  of  the  same  questions

for  instructor  identify  any gap  in  teaching  efficiency.

Also  modify   GB /BB  training  material based  on  JMP  item  analysis  models.

Last  one  it  can  be  proliferate to  the  internal  training  programs  such  as,

8D  program  or  the  Lean  training.

Thank you very much.