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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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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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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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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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Measured lives in educational psychology
International Review of Theoretical Psychologies, 2021 Why is the work of educational researcher John Hattie’s work so popular today? This is the question we will try to answer in this paper. Based on a very large empirical database, Hattie calculates the effects of numerous educational interventions and factors influencing student achievements. Despite documented methodological flaws in his work, Hattie’s
Klaus Nielsen, Jakob Klitmøller
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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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