Frontiers in Education, 2022 This paper examines why certain items in a competency test for music-related argumentation are more difficult than others. Based on previous studies on school-related achievement tests, the authors assume that differences in item difficulty are related ...
Julia Ehninger +2 more
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Goal confidence and difficulty as predictors of goal attainment in junior high school cross-country runners [PDF]
, 1997 This study examined the influence of confidence in a goal and difficulty of the goal on the attainment of self-set goals regarding time and position. 63 Junior high school cross-country runners (M Age=13.5 yr., SD=.5 yr.) completed a 6-item Race Goals ...
Karageorghis, CI, Lane, AM
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Item and error analysis on Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices in Williams Syndrome [PDF]
, 2010 Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices (RCPM) is a standardised test that is commonly used to obtain a non-verbal reasoning score for children. As the RCPM involves the matching of a target to a pattern it is also considered to be a visuo-spatial ...
Annaz, D. +5 more
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Psychometric Evaluation of an Instrument to Measure Prospective Pregnancy Preferences: The Desire to Avoid Pregnancy Scale. [PDF]
, 2019 BACKGROUND:Existing approaches to measuring women's pregnancy intentions suffer important limitations, including retrospective assessment, overly simple categories, and a presumption that all women plan pregnancies. No psychometrically valid scales exist
Foster, Diana G +4 more
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Linear programming method to construct equated item sets for the implementation of periodical computer-based testing for the Korean Medical Licensing Examination [PDF]
Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions, 2018 Purpose This study aimed to identify the best way of developing equivalent item sets and to propose a stable and effective management plan for periodical licensing examinations.
Dong Gi Seo +4 more
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Increased susceptibility to proactive interference in adults with dyslexia? [PDF]
, 2015 Recent findings show that people with dyslexia have an impairment in serial-order memory. Based on these findings, the present study aimed to test the hypothesis that people with dyslexia have difficulties dealing with proactive interference (PI) in ...
Arnaud Szmalec +14 more
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All India AYUSH post graduate entrance exam 2019 – AYURVEDA MCQ item analysis
Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine, 2021 Background: AIAPGET 2019, an all India ranking entrance Test for MD/MS courses of Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy stream was conducted by joint collaboration of National Testing Agency (NTA) and All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA).
Shivakumar Harti +3 more
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When do we eat? An evaluation of food items input into an electronic monitoring application [PDF]
, 2006 We present a formative study that examines what, when, and how participants in a chronic kidney disease (stage 5) population input food items into an electronic intake monitoring application. Participants scanned food item barcodes or voice recorded food
Connelly, Kay H. +5 more
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Computerized adaptive testing and short form development for child and adolescent oral health patient-reported outcomes measurement. [PDF]
, 2020 ObjectivesTo develop computerized adaptive testing (CAT) and short forms of self-report oral health measures that are predictive of both the children's oral health status index (COHSI) and the children's oral health referral recommendation (COHRR) scales,
Coulter, Ian D +10 more
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Is a picture worth a thousand words: an analysis of the difficulty and discrimination parameters of illustrated vs. text-alone vignettes in histology multiple choice questions. [PDF]
, 2015 Background Advances in cognitive load theory have led to greater understanding of how we process verbal and visual material during learning, but the evidence base with regard to the use of images within written assessments is still sparse.
Arnett, Richard +2 more
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