Assessing graph interpretation of high school students: an examination by students’ gender

Abstract

The research aims to assess graph interpretation among high school students in Karawang. The research used the analytic description method because graph interpretation shows students’ conceptual understanding. This research is focused on the kinematics concept and participants involved student 10th grade of high school which consists of 72 students (25 male students and 47 female students). The instrument that used in this research is the standard test of Understanding Graphs-kinematics (TUG-K) which consists of 21 multiple-choice. The data were analyzed using the Rasch model. The results of analysis by using Winsteps 4.4.3 in the form of Wright map display indicate that graph interpretation of gender (male and female student) has a gap. The graph interpretation of high school students with Rasch model have conclusion there are the value of person reliability is categorized as “sufficient”, the person measure shows that the average ability of students is fair than the item difficulty, the outfit mean-square into acceptable category, which indicates the excellent conditions for measurement, the outfit standardized Z is categorized acceptable too and student code started from high ability graph interpretation (02F) headed for low ability (13M).