Analyzing objective multiple choice questions for assessing the physics competencies of students in teaching the “light waves” chapter of physics grade 12 using Quest/Conquest software

Abstract

The new trend in the educational evaluation today is assessment based on student competencies. One of the innovative assessment methods is to add a type of objective multiple-choice questions in the student's ability assessment test. The outstanding advantage of the multiple-choice method is that it is easy to use many specialized software to analyze multiple-choice questions, test the task quickly and accurately such as determining the discriminant, difficulty, reliability, and relevance of the multiple-choice task with the Item Response Theory, as well as the factors regarding student competencies and their relationships can be described in the form of texts and graphs. The results of analyzing and evaluating the objective multiple-choice questions for assessing the physics competencies of students in teaching the Light Waves chapter of Physics grade 12 using the Item Response Theory are presented in detail in this report, with the support of Quest/Conquest software.