Item Type on Senior Secondary Schools Students’ Performance in Mathematics in Abak Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria

Abstract

This study determined the influence of item type on Senior Secondary School Students’ academic performance in Mathematics in Abak, Akwa Ibom State Using ex-post facto research design and instrumentation research design, the study collected data from a stratified random sample of 389 from a population of 4,483 co-educational SSS2 students’ in Abak Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. Two researcher made valid instruments- Mathematics Performance Test based on Item type (MPTIT) were used for data collection. These instruments had reliability indices of 0.87, 0.85 and 0.83 respectively. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions, while analysis of variance repeated measures was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Results showed that there is no significant influence of item type on students’  on students’ academic performance in Mathematics; there is no significant interaction effect of gender and item type on students’ performance in Mathematics; there is a significant interaction effect of item type and location on students’ academic performance in Mathematics. Based on the findings, it is concluded that changes in Mathematics item in a test is accompanied with changes in students’ performance as well as the psychometric properties of the test items.