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This paper discusses the evaluation of students’ performance at the Center of Foundation Studies, UiTM Puncak Alam. There are two programs offered to students at this center; Foundation of Science and Foundation of Engineering. Students who are enrolled in the Foundation of Engineering need to take subjects namely Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry and Computing. For this paper, the Computing subject has been chosen to be evaluated. The course assessment for Computing II (CSC099) includes quizzes (10 %), the midterm exam (20 %), a project (20 %), assignments (10 %) and the final exam (40 %). The students’ performance achievement is based on their final examination. Using Rasch Measurement Model, each level of difficulty of questions can be examined based on the students’ answers. Each question is mapped to the number of students who are able to answer it correctly. Based on the findings of 75 students, the results show that students can fairly answer questions from different levels of difficulty. The results tabulated from this research may help lecturers to improve the course content in the future.
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Said, R.F.M. (2016). Application of Rasch Measurement Model in Evaluating Student Performance for Foundation of Computing II. In: Fook, C., Sidhu, G., Narasuman, S., Fong, L., Abdul Rahman, S. (eds) 7th International Conference on University Learning and Teaching (InCULT 2014) Proceedings. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-664-5_21
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