doi: 10.4304/jsw.9.7.1903-1913
Rasch GSP Toolbox for Assessing Academic Achievement
- National Taichung University of Education / Graduate Institute of Educational Measurement, Taichung, Taiwan
Abstract
The main purpose of this research is tocomputerize GSP chart and Rasch GSP methods. GSP chartand Rasch GSP are effective and useful methods which usedfor analyzing and evaluating academic achievement. GSPchart provides information for diagnosing the learningstatus of students and the quality of questions while RaschGSP provides information for assessing the quality ofclasses and test quality. Therefore, this research hasconstructed Rasch GSP toolbox that is a support tool forteachers and researchers in using and studying GSP chartand Rasch GSP methods. The research has also proposed anumber of improvements in Rasch GSP method and madesupplements in order to increase the application range ofthe toolbox. Through specific examples, the ways of usingthis toolbox and applying Rasch GSP method are explainedin detail in this paper. Rasch GSP toolbox can quicklycalculate and give exact results for users, beside, GSPgraphs and Rasch GSP graphs are also presented clearly.Hence, it helps users easily view the visual image ofassessment result. In addition, a graphical user interface(GUI) is also designed to be easy for use. In practice, manyresearches that applied Rasch GSP toolbox have showedthat it is a useful evaluation tool. It not only can supply bigsupport to researchers in their research process but also canprovide feedbacks about teaching and learning to teachersand students. So students can make reasonable adjustmentsfor learning activity and teachers have an effective referencefor learning guidance.
Keywords
- Academic assessment
- GRA
- GSP chart
- MATL
How to Cite
Wei T. Sheu, Hieu D. Pham, Pin C. Tsai, Tuyen P. Nguyen, Hai P. Nguyen, and Masatake Nagai, "Rasch GSP Toolbox for Assessing Academic Achievement," Journal of Software, vol. 9, no. 7, pp. 1903-1913, 2014. https://doi.org/ 10.4304/jsw.9.7.1903-1913
Copyright & License
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