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Differential Item Functioning (DIF): What Functions Differentlyfor Immigrant Students in PISA 2009 Reading Items? [PDF]

, 2012
This analysis focuses on identifying items that present Differential Item Functioning (DIF) between native and immigrant students in the PISA 2009 reading assessment. The findings indicate that thirty-five percent of the 95 items or questions included in
DE SOUSA LOBO BORGES DE ARAUJO LUISA, DINIS MOTA DA COSTA PATRICIA   +1 more
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Psychological Safety Among Interprofessional Pediatric Oncology Teams in Germany: A Nationwide Survey

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Psychological safety (PS) is essential for teamwork, communication, and patient safety in complex healthcare environments. In pediatric oncology, interprofessional collaboration occurs under high emotional and organizational demands. Low PS may increase stress, burnout, and adverse events.
Alexandros Rahn, Anna‐Lena Herbach, Christian Bock, Katharina Fleig, Urs Mücke   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Age and Sex Effects in Anchoring Vignette Studies: Methodological and Empirical Contributions

Survey Research Methods, 2013
Anchoring vignettes are an increasingly popular tool for identifying and correcting for group differences in use of subjective ordered response categories. However, existing techniques to maximize response consistency (use of the same standards for self-
Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk
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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, Joosten, Annette, Munro, Natalie, Parsons, Lauren, Speyer, Renée, Wilkes-Gillan, Sarah   +5 more
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Characterizing Parental Concerns About Lasting Impacts of Treatment in Children With B‐Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background B‐acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B‐ALL) is the most common pediatric cancer, and while most children in high‐resource settings are cured, therapy carries risks for long‐term toxicities. Understanding parents’ concerns about these late effects is essential to guide anticipatory support and inform evolving therapeutic approaches ...
Kellee N. Parker, Sarah W. Alexander, Lisa M. Jacola, Kimberly A. Buff, Kyobin Hwang, Elham Hashemi, Gregory Stoddard, Lindsay A. Jibb   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of the psychometric properties of the family adaptability and cohesion scale (FACES III) through item response theory models in students from Chile and Colombia

BMC Psychology
Background A psychometric study of the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Scale (FACES III) has been conducted in Spanish-speaking countries from the perspective of the classical test theory.
Lindsey W. Vilca, Víctor Díaz-Narváez, Wilson Pastén Hidalgo, Nicolás Van Niekerk Bakit, Paula Moreno Reyes, Yaneth Herazo-Beltrán, Aura Gauna-Quiñonez, Alejandro Reyes-Reyes, Luz Marina Alonso Palacio, Marco Cervantes Mendoza   +9 more
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Differential Item Functioning of the region-based national examination equipment

REID (Research and Evaluation in Education)
This research aims to detect Differential Item Functioning (DIF) in the 2014/2015 National Examination Questions in mathematics of junior high schools and equivalent-level schools in the Yogyakarta region as a reference group and the South Kalimantan ...
Adi Setiawan, Gulzhaina Kuralbaevna Kassymova, Vianney Mbazumutima, Anggit Reviana Dewi Agustyani   +3 more
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Psychometric evaluation of Persian nomophobia questionnaire: differential item functioning and measurement invariance across gender [PDF]

, 2018
Background and aims: Research examining problematic mobile phone use has increased markedly over the past 5 years and has been related to “no mobile phone phobia” (so-called nomophobia). The 20-item Nomophobia Questionnaire (NMP-Q) is the only instrument
Andreassen, Andreassen, Argumosa-Villar, Argumosa-Villar, Asghari, Asghari, Bagheri, Bagheri, Bagozzi, Bagozzi, Beaton, Beaton, Chang, Chang, Chang, Chang, Chen, Chen, Cheng, Cheng, Crocker, Crocker, Fornell, Fornell, Ghanizadeh, Ghanizadeh, González-Cabrera, González-Cabrera, Gregorich, Gregorich, Gronlund, Gronlund, Ikeda, Ikeda, Ingalhalikar, Ingalhalikar, Jafari, Jafari, Jette, Jette, Kang, Kang, Khan, Khan, Khoshnevisan, Khoshnevisan, King, King, King, King, King, King, Kook, Kook, Lin, Lin, Lin, Lin, Lin, Lin, Lin, Lin, Lin, Lin, Lin, Lin, Lin, Lin, Mercier, Mercier, Mohammadsalehi, Mohammadsalehi, Monacis, Monacis, Nathan, Nathan, Ostovar, Ostovar, Pappas, Pappas, Pontes, Pontes, Rosseel, Rosseel, Saffari, Saffari, Sahin, Sahin, Shih, Shih, Thompson, Thompson, Walsh, Walsh, Wang, Wang, Wu, Wu, Yang, Yang, Yildirim, Yildirim, Zheng, Zheng   +103 more
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Revealing the structure of land plant photosystem II: the journey from negative‐stain EM to cryo‐EM

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Advances in cryo‐EM have revealed the detailed structure of Photosystem II, a key protein complex driving photosynthesis. This review traces the journey from early low‐resolution images to high‐resolution models, highlighting how these discoveries deepen our understanding of light harvesting and energy conversion in plants.
Roman Kouřil
wiley   +1 more source

anchors: Software for Anchoring Vignette Data

Journal of Statistical Software, 2011
When respondents use the ordinal response categories of standard survey questions in different ways, the validity of analyses based on the resulting data can be biased.
Jonathan Wand, Gary King, Olivia Lau
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