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  While the COVID lockdown period is being phased out, but still online teaching-learning activity will increase to a greater extent. Though we already had number of online teaching portals from big players such as Byju’s, Udemy, Khan Academy, Coursera, Alison, edX, Futurelearn, Udacity etc., then the teaching community from schools, colleges, universities etc. explored and started using the ZOOM, Hello, GoogleClass, Microsoft Teacm etc, These platforms see the number of users doubling during COVID because people are concerned about health and hygiene, and companies are realizing remote work is possible when done properly.   But as far as the education segment is concerned which is basically an examination and evaluation based promotion, so the new business trend is moving in that direction also, and we hope that students could give examination sitting at home.   Software houses started analyzing this gap created by COVID, and felt the pain of worthy faculty, student...

In this blog I introduce the following key terms used for finding the level of questions set by an examiner in an examination and the perception of the students about it. These terms are the facilitation value and the discrimination value. 1.        Introduction A.       Facilitation Value : The facilitation value of a question indicates how easy the question is. The facilitation value is calculated by using the following formula. FV= (RU + RL)(2xN*marks of test item) Where N= no. of students in a group. The value is chosen as 30% of the total students from top scorer and 30% of students from low scorers. RU = sum of marks obtained by upper group RL = sum of marks obtained by lower group When FV=1 means that all students in lower group and all students in upper group answered the test item. So it can be so assumed that the test item was very easy.   When FV=0, means nobody answered the question, it means tha...