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Measuring Education and Skill [PDF]
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2014 This article reviews recent developments in measuring education and skill that need to be taken into account in any new initiative to monitor social mobility. Over the past half-century, patterns of educational participation and attainment have become more heterogeneous, a trend that has been accompanied by increases in assessment and testing practices,
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Measurement in Education [PDF]
Philosophy of Education, 2018 Data is the new gold. In education, this debate focusses specifically on test scores; whether used for evaluating schools or teachers, assessing social mobility or investigating children’s skill development. However, the perfect data do not exist. The value of any data analysis depends crucially on how the data were collected, which individuals are ...
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مجله علوم روانشناختی, 2022 Background: Scoring and analysis of Forced Choice(FC) scale has caused a great deal of controversy among researchers. Most of the discussions are related to the superficiality of the obtained results due to the ipsative nature of FC scale datas.
Parviz Fadakar Gabalou +4 more
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Development and Validation of a Vertical Scale for Formative Assessment in Mathematics
Frontiers in Education, 2019 The regular formative assessment of students' abilities across multiple school grades requires a reliable and valid vertical scale. A vertical scale is a precondition not only for comparing assessment results and measuring progress over time, but also ...
Stéphanie Berger +5 more
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A Lognormal Ipsative Model for Multidimensional Compositional Items
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Compositional items – a form of forced-choice items – require respondents to allocate a fixed total number of points to a set of statements. To describe the responses to these items, the Thurstonian item response theory (IRT) model was developed. Despite
Chia-Wen Chen +4 more
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Identifying the dimensions and components of teachers' professional competence and presenting a conceptual model at the level of the Islamic Republic of Iran [PDF]
تربیت اسلامی, 2023 Competence is a structure that casts a shadow over all the weaknesses and excellent performances of a teacher like an umbrella. The purpose of this study is to identify the dimensions and components of teachers' professional competence in the level of ...
Masoomeh Fathi +3 more
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Improvement of Measurement Efficiency in Multistage Tests by Targeted Assignment
Frontiers in Education, 2019 A good match between item difficulty and student ability ensures efficient measurement and prevents students from becoming discouraged or bored by test items that are too easy or too difficult.
Stéphanie Berger +5 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Research on educational effectiveness most often uses student assessments of classroom instruction for measuring aspects of teaching quality. Given that crucial inferences on the success of education are based on these assessments, it is essential to ...
Ronny eScherer +2 more
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Can IRT solve the missing data problem in test equating?
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 In this paper test equating is considered as a missing data problem. The unobserved responses of the reference population to the new test must be imputed to specify a new cutscore.
Maria eBolsinova +3 more
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The Hierarchical Rater Thresholds Model for Multiple Raters and Multiple Items
Open Education Studies, 2021 In educational measurement, various methods have been proposed to infer student proficiency from the ratings of multiple items (e.g., essays) by multiple raters. However, suitable models quickly become numerically demanding or even unfeasible as separate
Molenaar Dylan +3 more
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