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🧪 Summative Assessment Simulation

Interactive summative-assessment simulator: build a test from item-response-theory parameters, sample a student cohort, and watch pass/fail decisions form live as you move the cut score, item difficulty and discrimination — with reliability and classification-accuracy readouts.

Education & Learning Tools2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted
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Summative assessment is the decision a test makes at the end of a unit — pass or fail, mastery or not, which grade band — and that decision is only as good as the test items behind it. This simulator builds a test bank from item-response-theory parameters (difficulty, discrimination, a fixed guessing floor), samples a 150-student cohort from a normal ability distribution, and simulates every student answering every item as an independent trial at their item-specific probability of success. Move the cut score, item difficulty or discrimination and watch the pass/fail split, mean score, KR-20 reliability, standard error of measurement and classification accuracy update live in a 3D scatter where each student's position is their ability and their height is their raw score.

⚙ Under the hood

This simulation demonstrates summative assessment – a method of evaluating student learning at the end of an instructional unit or course. It illustrates how assessments are used to determine overall mastery and assign grades.

Summative AssessmentEvaluation Methods

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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