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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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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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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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Designing a value model in students based on the Fundamental Reform Document of Education [PDF]
روانشناسی تربیتی, 2022 The present study aimed to identify and develop a value model in students based on the Fundamental Reform Document of Education. This research was based on the approach of a combination of exploratory researchers, in two parts: qualitative (Thematic ...
Leila Shokouhi amirabadi +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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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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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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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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Getting the Measure of Measurement: Global educational opportunity [PDF]
Educational 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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