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Psychometric Evaluation of an Instrument to Measure Prospective Pregnancy Preferences: The Desire to Avoid Pregnancy Scale. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
BACKGROUND:Existing approaches to measuring women's pregnancy intentions suffer important limitations, including retrospective assessment, overly simple categories, and a presumption that all women plan pregnancies. No psychometrically valid scales exist
Foster, Diana G   +4 more
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Psychometric analysis of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale (GAD-7) in primary care using modern item response theory

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2017
Objective The Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale (GAD-7) is one of the most frequently used diagnostic self-report scales for screening, diagnosis and severity assessment of anxiety disorder. Its psychometric properties from the view of the Item Response
Pascal Jordan, M. Shedden-Mora, B. Löwe
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Advances in psychometrics: from Classical Test Theory to Item Response Theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In the 20th century, development and evaluation of psychometric properties of tests was mainly based on the Classical Test Theory (CTT). Many tests are long and redundant, with measures influenced by the characteristics of the sample of the individuals ...
Sartes, Laisa Marcorela Andreoli   +1 more
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Multidimensional Item Response Theory for Factor Structure Assessment in Educational Psychology Research

open access: yesFrontiers in Education, 2019
This study demonstrates the use of multidimensional item response theory (MIRT) to investigate an instrument’s factor structure. For didactic purposes, MIRT was used to assess the factor structure of the 9-item Effort Beliefs Scale (Blackwell ...
J. Immekus, Kate E. Snyder, P. Ralston
semanticscholar   +1 more source

An Item Response Theory Evaluation of a Language-Independent CS1 Knowledge Assessment

open access: yesTechnical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2019
Tests serve an important role in computing education, measuring achievement and differentiating between learners with varying knowledge. But tests may have flaws that confuse learners or may be too difficult or easy, making test scores less valid and ...
Benjamin Xie   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The development and testing of a new version of the cognitive reflection test applying item response theory (irt).

open access: yes, 2016
The cognitive reflection test (CRT) is a short measure of a person's ability to resist intuitive response tendencies and to produce a normatively correct response, which is based on effortful reasoning.
C. Primi   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Review of Tenko Raykov and George Marcoulides's a Course in Item Response Theory and Modeling with Stata

open access: yesThe Stata Journal, 2018
In this article, I review A Course in Item Response Theory and Modeling with Stata by Tenko Raykov and George A. Marcoulides (2018 [Stata Press]).
Ariel Linden
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Inappropriatness Score Based on Item Response Theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The objective of this research is to compare inappropriateness based on Item response theory as an effect of using model of scoring and number of options for multiple choice items. The research method used quasi experiment.
SANTOSO, B. (BUDI)
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Marker effects and examination reliability: a comparative exploration from the perspectives of generalizability theory, Rasch modelling and multilevel modelling [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This study looked at how three different analysis methods could help us to understand rater effects on exam reliability. The techniques we looked at were: generalizability theory (G-theory) item response theory (IRT): in particular the Many-Facets ...
Baird, Jo-Anne   +4 more
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