Evaluating performance of students in engineering statistics final exam questions
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analysis, course outcome, engineering statistics, final exam, Rasch modelAbstract
Engineering Statistics is one of Engineering Mathematics subject which is common for all the engineering courses besides Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations and Numerical Analysis. Students performance in Engineering Statistics subject can be evaluated examining through the final exam questions. Students need to understand the concept learn through a semester or 14 weeks of period and do necessary preparation to do the final exam questions. Rasch model is used to evaluate students performance in Engineering Statistics examination. A total of 114 engineering students sat for Engineering Statistics final examination. There are 5 Course Outcomes and 2 Programme Outcomes for Engineering Statistics subject. The final exam marks were entered in excel. Then the marks transferred to *prn format. Next Rasch model generate the output. The outputs are summary statistics for person, summary statistics for item, item map and person map. The summary statistics for person able to groups the students into 2 groups, namely high performers and low performers. On the other hand, the items can be group into 4 groups. They are difficult, mediocre, easy and very easy. The item map and the person map able to show those groups clearly
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