Utilization of Rasch Measurement Model in Evaluating Reliability, Validity and Quality of Examination Questions: A Case Study of Information Technology Fundamentals Course

ABSTRACT In most of the higher universities and institutions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, final examination been used as an assessment tool to measure students' academic performance. A good reliability, validity and quality of a set of constructed on final exams questions would be able to measure both students' academic performance and their cognitive skills. Rasch Measurement Model been used to evaluate the reliability, validity and quality of the final exam questions for the Information Technology Fundamentals (IT280) course. The analysis indicated that the quality and reliability, validity and quality of the final exam questions constructed were relatively good. Keywords: Final exam, Item Analysis, Item Difficulty, Person Fit, Quality, Rasch Measurement Model, Reliability