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Developments in the educational effectiveness research programme [PDF]

open access: yes, 1994
Educational effectiveness as a research programme moved from an input-output paradigm to an input-process-output paradigm and, in view of the fact that so-called contextual school effectiveness is gaining in importance, this might be more properly termed
Creemers, Bert P.M., Scheerens, Jaap
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Applying the thurstonian item response approach to force choice scales: the factory structure of the kolb learning styles questionnaire

open access: yesمجله 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

open access: yesFrontiers 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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Adapting the Robust Effect Size Cliff's Delta to Compare Behaviour Profiles

open access: yesSurvey 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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Getting the Measure of Measurement: Global educational opportunity [PDF]

open access: yesEducational Philosophy and Theory, 2015
Although measurement is widely misused in education, it is indispensable in addressing the problems of injustice in global educational opportunity. Considering how the case can be made for legitimate use of measurement in normative analysis and argument, we explore ways in which metrics have featured in the formulation of theories of justice, with ...
Enslin, Penny, Tjiattas, Mary
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Improvement of Measurement Efficiency in Multistage Tests by Targeted Assignment

open access: yesFrontiers 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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Can IRT solve the missing data problem in test equating?

open access: yesFrontiers 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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Flexibility at the Price of Volatility: Concurrent Calibration in Multistage Tests in Practice Using a 2PL Model

open access: yesFrontiers 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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Student Assessment of Teaching as a Source of Information about Aspects of Teaching Quality in Multiple Subject Domains: An Application of Multilevel Bifactor Structural Equation Modeling

open access: yesFrontiers 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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Online engagement and performance on formative assessments mediate the relationship between attendance and course performance

open access: yesInternational Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2022
In traditional school-based learning, attendance was regarded as a proxy for engagement and key indicator for performance. However, few studies have explored the effect of in-class attendance in technology-enhanced courses that are increasingly provided ...
Chang Lu, Maria Cutumisu
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