BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2022 Background Item response theory (IRT) methods for addressing differential item functioning (DIF) can detect group differences in responses to individual items (e.g., bias).
E. Nichols +13 more
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An Evaluation of DIF Tests in Multistage Tests for Continuous Covariates
Psych, 2021 Multistage tests are a widely used and efficient type of test presentation that aims to provide accurate ability estimates while keeping the test relatively short.
Rudolf Debelak, Dries Debeer
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Item Response Theory for Efficient Human Evaluation of Chatbots
EVAL4NLP, 2020 Conversational agent quality is currently assessed using human evaluation, and often requires an exorbitant number of comparisons to achieve statistical significance.
João Sedoc, L. Ungar
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Estimating learners' vocabulary size under item response theory
Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2014 Perhaps the most qualitatively interpretable vocabulary test score is an estimate of the total number of words the learner knows in the tested domain, such as a frequency word list, or vocabulary taught as part of a course curriculum.
Aaron Gibson, Jeffrey Stewart
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Applying Item Response Theory (IRT) Modeling to an Observational Measure of Childhood Pragmatics: The Pragmatics Observational Measure-2 [PDF]
, 2019 Assessment of pragmatic language abilities of children is important across a number of childhood developmental disorders including ADHD, language impairment and Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Cordier, Reinie +5 more
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Item response theory analysis of the mechanics baseline test [PDF]
, 2011 Item response theory is useful in both the development and evaluation of assessments and in computing standardized measures of student performance. In item response theory, individual parameters (difficulty, discrimination) for each item or question are ...
Abbott, Jonathan E. +5 more
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Multivariate Behavioral Research, 2018 In recent years, network models have been proposed as an alternative representation of psychometric constructs such as depression. In such models, the covariance between observables (e.g., symptoms like depressed mood, feelings of worthlessness, and ...
M. Marsman +7 more
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The Effectiveness of the Adaptive Testing Using Selected Response Items and Constructed Response Items [PDF]
Journal of Islamic Studies, 2012 This study aimed at investigate the effectiveness of the adaptive testing which consists of both dichotomous selected response items and polytomous items by using generated data from computer,60 dichotomous responses and 10 polytomous responses were ...
Ismail Al-Bursan
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On multidimensional item response theory -- a coordinate free approach
, 2007 A coordinate system free definition of complex structure multidimensional item response theory (MIRT) for dichotomously scored items is presented.
Antal, Tamás
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Differential item functioning in the Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System Pediatric Short Forms in a sample of children and adolescents with cerebral palsy. [PDF]
, 2016 AIM: The present study examined the Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Mobility, Fatigue, and Pain Interference Short Forms (SFs) in children and adolescents with cerebral palsy (CP) for the presence of differential item ...
Bjorner +17 more
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