Rasch Measurement Analysis for Validation Instrument to Evaluate Students Technical Readiness for Embedded Systems

Embedded systems have become a significant manufacturing sector and essential in our life due to their large applications. As a result, higher education institutions acknowledge the significance for offering embedded system design course to electrical, electronics, and computer engineering students....

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Main Authors:	Intisar Ibrahim, Ridwan, Rosmah, Ali, Izzeldin, I. Mohd, Mohamad Zulkefli, Adam, Nazar, ElFadil
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Published:	IEEE 2017
Subjects:	TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
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spelling	ump-184212018-01-25T01:07:22Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/18421/ Rasch Measurement Analysis for Validation Instrument to Evaluate Students Technical Readiness for Embedded Systems Intisar Ibrahim, Ridwan Rosmah, Ali Izzeldin, I. Mohd Mohamad Zulkefli, Adam Nazar, ElFadil TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Embedded systems have become a significant manufacturing sector and essential in our life due to their large applications. As a result, higher education institutions acknowledge the significance for offering embedded system design course to electrical, electronics, and computer engineering students. Unfortunately, embedded systems design course continues to be challenging and complex despite current attempts in introducing new embedded system teaching methods. This paper deals with this issue by developing and validating an instrument to measure students' readiness to learn embedded systems using Rasch model. An expert panel was used to verify the content validity and a pilot study (N = 40 respondents) was performed to measure the instrument reliability. A total of 365 respondents from different universities completed the 10-item scale and provided demographic data. The scale dimensionality was evaluated using WINSTEPS 3.92.1, with results showed that all the items fit the Rasch measurement model with acceptable fit index (0.6-1.4) and expressed revealed good consistency, with reliability alpha of 1.00 and 0.72 for items and persons respectively. The instrument was found to have appropriate psychometric properties, and the overall results are well aligned with theoretical expectations. This work has shown that the students were not technically ready for embedded system study. IEEE 2017 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/18421/1/Rasch%20measurement%20analysis%20for%20validation%20instrument%20to%20evaluate%20students%20technical%20readiness%20for%20embedded%20systems.pdf application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/18421/2/Rasch%20measurement%20analysis%20for%20validation%20instrument%20to%20evaluate%20students%20technical%20readiness%20for%20embedded%20systems%201.pdf Intisar Ibrahim, Ridwan and Rosmah, Ali and Izzeldin, I. Mohd and Mohamad Zulkefli, Adam and Nazar, ElFadil (2017) Rasch Measurement Analysis for Validation Instrument to Evaluate Students Technical Readiness for Embedded Systems. In: IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON) 2016, 22-25 November 2016 , Singapore. pp. 2115-2119.. ISBN 9781509025978 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7848399/
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spellingShingle	TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Intisar Ibrahim, Ridwan Rosmah, Ali Izzeldin, I. Mohd Mohamad Zulkefli, Adam Nazar, ElFadil Rasch Measurement Analysis for Validation Instrument to Evaluate Students Technical Readiness for Embedded Systems
description	Embedded systems have become a significant manufacturing sector and essential in our life due to their large applications. As a result, higher education institutions acknowledge the significance for offering embedded system design course to electrical, electronics, and computer engineering students. Unfortunately, embedded systems design course continues to be challenging and complex despite current attempts in introducing new embedded system teaching methods. This paper deals with this issue by developing and validating an instrument to measure students' readiness to learn embedded systems using Rasch model. An expert panel was used to verify the content validity and a pilot study (N = 40 respondents) was performed to measure the instrument reliability. A total of 365 respondents from different universities completed the 10-item scale and provided demographic data. The scale dimensionality was evaluated using WINSTEPS 3.92.1, with results showed that all the items fit the Rasch measurement model with acceptable fit index (0.6-1.4) and expressed revealed good consistency, with reliability alpha of 1.00 and 0.72 for items and persons respectively. The instrument was found to have appropriate psychometric properties, and the overall results are well aligned with theoretical expectations. This work has shown that the students were not technically ready for embedded system study.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Intisar Ibrahim, Ridwan Rosmah, Ali Izzeldin, I. Mohd Mohamad Zulkefli, Adam Nazar, ElFadil
author_facet	Intisar Ibrahim, Ridwan Rosmah, Ali Izzeldin, I. Mohd Mohamad Zulkefli, Adam Nazar, ElFadil
author_sort	Intisar Ibrahim, Ridwan
title	Rasch Measurement Analysis for Validation Instrument to Evaluate Students Technical Readiness for Embedded Systems
title_short	Rasch Measurement Analysis for Validation Instrument to Evaluate Students Technical Readiness for Embedded Systems
title_full	Rasch Measurement Analysis for Validation Instrument to Evaluate Students Technical Readiness for Embedded Systems
title_fullStr	Rasch Measurement Analysis for Validation Instrument to Evaluate Students Technical Readiness for Embedded Systems
title_full_unstemmed	Rasch Measurement Analysis for Validation Instrument to Evaluate Students Technical Readiness for Embedded Systems
title_sort	rasch measurement analysis for validation instrument to evaluate students technical readiness for embedded systems
publisher	IEEE
publishDate	2017
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