ANÁLISIS DE LA DIFICULTAD DE UN BANCO DE ÍTEMS DE VISUALIZACIÓN ESPACIAL

Gerardo Prieto; Angela D. Velasco; Rosario Arias-Barahona; Marcedes Anido; Ana María Núñez; Patricia Có

doi:10.22235/cp.v0i1.573

Authors

Gerardo Prieto Universidad de Salamanca
Angela D. Velasco Universidade Estadual Paulista
Rosario Arias-Barahona Universidad San Martin de Porres
Marcedes Anido Universidad Nacional de Rosario
Ana María Núñez Universidad San Martin de Porres
Patricia Có Universidad Nacional de Rosario

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22235/cp.v0i1.573

Keywords:

Visualization, Item bank, Rasch model, Test Validity

Abstract

This work is the description of the validation process of a Visualization item bank, whose items were generated from a Surfaces Development task. The item bank was developed from Cognitive Design framework. The tests were applied to samples of first-year Engineering students. The item difficulty was estimated using the Rasch model. We observed that the item difficulty is associated to a task conditions involved in the ability of mentally transforming the objects and of maintaining active the spatial information during the transforming process.

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