The Measurement of Psychometric Property of the Mid-Term Test Questions of Quantitative Research Methodology Course for Employee Class Students’: A Rasch Model Analysis

Abstract

Quantitative research method courses had always been a scourge for students, especially for employee class students. Employee class students were assumed to be students who shared their concentration for work and study and forgot materials taught after leaving a class. I met this when I taught employee class students for a semester. I found that they had a good responsibility for doing the task, but they did not care about the content they wrote in their assignments. This study generally aimed to identify the ability of employee class students for quantitative research method course and test the quantitative research methodology exam questions. The results of the study could be used as a reference in predicting the final grades of students. The researchers also could find out the pattern of students' answers that were manipulated. This study showed that the five exam questions had high validity and high item reliability, but the students are not consistent in answering the questions. The distribution of items in the five questions was quite good. The students getting high and low scores were balanced with the same percentage, namely 39%.