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Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2023 One major aim of international large-scale assessments (ILSA) like PISA is to monitor changes in student performance over time. To accomplish this task, a set of common items (i.e., link items) is repeatedly administered in each assessment.
Alexander Robitzsch, Oliver Lüdtke
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Does random differential item functioning occur in one or two groups? Implications for bias and variance in asymmetric and symmetric Haebara and Stocking-Lord linking [PDF]
AsymmetryLinking methods are frequently applied to analyze the performance of two groups on a set of items. This article shows analytically and by simulation that the occurrence of differential item functioning (DIF) can induce bias and additional variance in ...
Alexander Robitzsch
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Examining the relation of correct knowledge and misconceptions using the nominal response model
Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021 This study reports an analysis of the Force Concept Inventory (FCI) using item response curves (IRC)—the fraction of students selecting each response to an item as a function of their total score.
John Stewart +7 more
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Reading Comprehension Tests for Children: Test Equating and Specific Age-Interval Reports
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Equating is used to directly compare alternate forms of tests. We describe the equating of two alternative forms of a reading comprehension test for Brazilian children (2nd to 5th grade), Form A (n = 427) and Form B (n = 321).
Patrícia Silva Lúcio +6 more
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Application of Asymmetric IRT Modeling to Discrete-Option Multiple-Choice Test Items
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Asymmetric IRT models have been shown useful for capturing heterogeneity in the number of latent subprocesses underlying educational test items (Lee and Bolt, 2018a).
Daniel M. Bolt +4 more
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Item response theory to discriminate COVID-19 knowledge and attitudes among university students
Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and StatisticsThe study sought to compare two-item response theory (IRT) models, the Rasch and 2PL models, and to uncover insights on COVID-19 knowledge and attitude item difficulty and discrimination among university students.
Ronald Wesonga +7 more
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Analisa Item Response Theory Wonderlic Personnel Test (WPT)
Jurnal Pengukuran Psikologi dan Pendidikan Indonesia, 2019 Wonderlic Personnel Test (WPT) is a psychology tool that measures individual cognitive abilities based on measuring the level of learning ability, understanding the instruction, and solving the problems.
Medianta Tarigan, Fadillah Fadillah
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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Journal of IntelligenceMeasurement models traditionally make the assumption that item responses are independent from one another, conditional upon the common factor. They typically explore for violations of this assumption using various methods, but rarely do they account for ...
Nils Myszkowski, Martin Storme
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There Is no First Phase of the Jespersen Cycle1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This paper challenges the traditional conception of the Jespersen Cycle by arguing that no ‘pure’ first phase of the cycle exists where a single negator operates without reinforcement. Drawing on historical data from Northern Italian dialects (Piedmontese, Lombard, Emilian), we demonstrate that emphatic negative structures systematically co ...
Tommaso Mattiuzzi, Cecilia Poletto
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