As a Potential Source of Error, Measuring the Tendency of University Students to Copy the Answers: A Scale Development Study
Yıl: 2018 Cilt: 18 Sayı: 75 Sayfa Aralığı: 37 - 58 Metin Dili: İngilizce DOI: 10.14689/ejer.2018.75.3 İndeks Tarihi: 09-05-2019
As a Potential Source of Error, Measuring the Tendency of University Students to Copy the Answers: A Scale Development Study
Öz: Purpose: The answer-copying tendency has thepotential to detect suspicious answer patterns for prior distributions of statistical detection techniques. The aim of this study is to develop a valid and reliable measurement tool as a scale inorder to observe the tendency of university students’ copying of answers. Also, it is aimed to provide evidence with more comprehensive validity and reliability studies than the previously available researches. ResearchMethods: This is a scale development study. The“Answer-Copying Tendency Scale in UniversityStudents (ACTS)” was developed under the“Classical Test Theory”.Other theories were also considered, especially “Item Response Theory”. After preliminarystudies and item writing, a trial application with 711 students and main applications with909 students was conducted. Structural validity, item and test descriptive statistics, itemdiscriminations, inconsistency and test–retest reliability, classification accuracy, and itembias with differential item functioning were examined. Findings: The ACTS composed of2 factor and 20 items. Total scores and item scores distributions are normal. Itemdiscriminations are very high and over 0.40. α inconsistency coefficients are over 0.88 andtest–retest reliability coefficient is 0.804. It provides highly correct classifications accordingto the students’ answer-copying positions. There is no significant and serious DIF on items.Implications for Research and Practice: Unlike similar examples, it was studied on thelarge groups and used more comprehensive techniques to obtain evidences. Results showthat the validity and reliability levels of the ACTS are very high. The ACTS can be used tounderstand the nature of the answer-copying. Also, and more importantly, it is thoughtthat the ACTS can be used to detect suspicious answer patterns for prior distributions.
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