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JISAE (Journal of Indonesian Student Assessment and Evaluation), 2023 This study aims to analyze an assessment instrument, mainly the characteristics of the test items, by using a Quest program. This study is a descriptive quantitative study in one school in Yogyakarta.
Ikhsanudin Ikhsanudin +3 more
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Psychometric Properties of 3-, 4-, and 5-Option Item Tests: Do Test Takers’ Personality Traits Make a Difference? [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2019 Prior research has yielded mixed results regarding what contributes psychometrically sound multiple-choice (MC) items. The purpose of the present study was, therefore, twofold: (a) to compare 3-, 4-, and 5-option multiple-choice (MC) tests in terms of ...
Fatemeh Khaleghi, Rajab Esfandiari
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Extending Item Response Theory to Online Homework
, 2014 Item Response Theory becomes an increasingly important tool when analyzing ``Big Data'' gathered from online educational venues. However, the mechanism was originally developed in traditional exam settings, and several of its assumptions are infringed ...
Kortemeyer, Gerd
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Are Exam Questions Known in Advance? Using Local Dependence to Detect Cheating. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Cheating is a common phenomenon in high stakes admission, licensing and university exams and threatens their validity. To detect if some exam questions had been affected by cheating, we simulated how data would look like if some test takers possessed ...
Stefan Zimmermann +2 more
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Mining discriminative items in multiple data streams [PDF]
World Wide Web, 2010 How can we maintain a dynamic profile capturing a user's reading interest against the common interest? What are the queries that have been asked 1,000 times more frequently to a search engine from users in Asia than in North America? What are the keywords (or tags) that are 1,000 times more frequent in the blog stream on computer games than in the blog
Zhenhua Lin +3 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Maximum deviation global discrimination index (MDGDI) is a new item selection method for cognitive diagnostic computerized adaptive testing that allows for attribute coverage balance. We developed the maximum limitation global discrimination index (MLGDI)
Junjie Li +3 more
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MedEdPORTAL, 2012 This resource is an electronic tutorial explaining the basics of item analysis. It focuses on item difficulty, item discrimination, and distractor analysis.
Christopher Reznich
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Psychometric properties of a novel knowledge assessment tool of mechanical ventilation for emergency medicine residents in the northeastern United States [PDF]
Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions, 2016 Purpose: Prior descriptions of the psychometric properties of validated knowledge assessment tools designed to determine Emergency medicine (EM) residents understanding of physiologic and clinical concepts related to mechanical ventilation are lacking ...
Jeremy B. Richards +3 more
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Parameters and Models of Item Response Theory (IRT): A Review of Literature
Acta Educationis Generalis, 2023 Introduction: Item response theory (IRT) has received much attention in validation of assessment instrument because it allows the estimation of students’ ability from any set of the items.
Gyamfi Abraham, Acquaye Rosemary
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Obesity, perceived weight discrimination, and psychological well-being in older adults in England [PDF]
, 2015 Objective To examine whether the adverse effect of obesity on psychological well-being can be explained by weight discrimination. Methods The study sample included 5056 older (≥50 y) men and women living in England and participating in the English ...
Beeken, RJ, Jackson, SE, Wardle, J
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