Gender Analysis of Students Performances in Matching and Completion Test Formats; A Chemistry Achievement Test

Abstract

This study compared the difficulty and discriminatory indices of boys and girls in matching and completion test format of chemistry achievement test. The research design was a descriptive   survey   type, the sample consisted of four hundred (400) SS 111 Students randomly selected from eight (8) public Senior Secondary Schools in A do Local Government Area of Ekiti State, The instrument was made up of two parallel objective test format on Chemistry Review Questionnaire (matching and completion formats).The first is a 60-item matching test which is essentially a replica of the sixty 60-item completion test. Both tests were strictly based on the same content. The two instruments were administered simultaneously. Data collected were analysed for P-values and d-values using correlation analysis, t-test and z-test. Two hypotheses were generated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The result of the analysis showed that there is significant difference between the performance of male and female students in the completion test format of chemistry test; there is significant difference between the performance of male and female students in the matching test format of chemistry achievement test. It was therefore asserted that completion test and matching test can be used as complementary test item with the other forms of test in use presently.

Keywords: Matching Tests, Difficulty Index, Difficulty Level, Discriminating Index, Completion Items, Items