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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2004 The use of the perpetual inventory method for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement error. This paper analyzes its effect on growth regressions. We suggest a methodology for correcting this error. The standard attenuation bias suggests that using these corrected data would lead to a higher coefficient.
Portela, M., Alessie, R., Teulings, C.
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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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Adapting the Robust Effect Size Cliff's Delta to Compare Behaviour Profiles
Survey Research Methods, 2022 Cliff’s Delta is a non-parametric effect size that is based on data observations. In this paper, we introduce an adaptation of Cliff’s Delta in order to compare behaviour profiles.
Frank Bais, Joost van der Neut
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Measuring Discrimination in Education [PDF]
, 2009 In this paper, a methodology to measure discrimination in educational contexts is illustrated. In India, exam competition is run through which children compete for a large financial prize and teachers have been recruited to grade the exams.Then there is a random assignment of child “characteristics†(age, gender, and caste) to the cover sheets of ...
Rema Hanna, Leigh Linden
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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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Measuring Investment in Education [PDF]
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1996 Historic debates about the measurement of capital are even more complicated in the case of education and human capital. As extensive research demonstrates, education resources are not consistently related to student performance in existing elementary and secondary schools.
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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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Measurement in Higher Education.
The Journal of Philosophy, 1923 Vita. ; Thesis (PH.D.) - Columbia university, 1923. ; Bibliography: p. 331-334. ; Mode of access: Internet.
G. M. Ruch, Ben D. Wood
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Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2018 Background Fair comparisons of educational systems in large-scale assessments can be made only if the differences in curricula have little impact on the outcomes.
Stephan Daus, Johan Braeken
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Frontiers in Education, 2021 Multistage test (MST) designs promise efficient student ability estimates, an indispensable asset for individual diagnostics in high-stakes educational assessments.
Laura A. Helbling +2 more
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