Journal of Engineering Education Transformations

Abstract

It has become a challenging task to derive information on attainment of cognitive skills by analysing students’ performance. There are certain subjective critical factors such as understanding of basic concepts, quality of teaching, quality of question papers, and the mode of evaluation, which influence of students accomplishment. The authors feel that it is necessary to examine the attributes of end semester examination question papers. It is essential to assess the type of questions posed in the examinations using the statistical techniques and measures. This paper analyse the analysis of quality of questions used in the end semester examinations. The proposed methodology uses ‘item analysis’ technique for improving the course outcome attainment. Statistical results indicate that the question setters may consider the resulted norms while examining the students by standardizing the assessment questions, which in turn yield better academic performance by students. Keywords: Item Analysis, Course Outcome Attainment, Student Performance, Question Paper Quality