A Rasch analysis to determine the difficulty of the National Senior Certificate Mathematics examination

The National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations were written for the second time in 2009 amid much criticism. In this study, scripts of candidates who wrote the NSC Mathematics examinations (papers 1 and 2) in 2009 were used as data to analyse the marks scored and then polytomous Rasch analysis...

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Main Authors: Joyce Sewry, Paul Mokilane
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Free State 2014-03-01
Series:Perspectives in Education
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Online Access:http://196.255.246.28/index.php/pie/article/view/1853