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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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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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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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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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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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The Measurement of Educational Inequality: Achievement and Opportunity [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its selection is informed by consideration of two measurement issues that have typically been overlooked in the literature: the ...
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. +1 more
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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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International 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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