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Children's discrimination of phonologically similar items [PDF]

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1990
Discrimination of a heard target word from phonologically similar and dissimilar items was investigated in seventeen 3.5- to 4.5-year olds and nine adults using a two-choice reaction time (RT) procedure. The target word (“little”) differed from the similar items (e.g., “lettle”) on a single acoustic-phonetic segment and from the dissimilar items (e.g.,
W. D. Murphy, L. A. Gerken, R. P. Cooper, R. N. Aslin   +3 more
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Developing and validating measures of self-reported everyday and healthcare discrimination for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2021
Background It is well established that racism is a fundamental contributor to poor health and inequities. There is consistent evidence of high exposure to discrimination among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous Australian) peoples, but ...
Katherine A. Thurber, Jennie Walker, Philip J. Batterham, Gilbert C. Gee, Jan Chapman, Naomi Priest, Rubijayne Cohen, Roxanne Jones, Alice Richardson, Alison L. Calear, David R. Williams, Raymond Lovett   +11 more
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Development and validation of the ACE tool: Assessing medical trainees' competency in evidence based medicine [PDF]

, 2014
BACKGROUND: While a variety of instruments have been developed to assess knowledge and skills in evidence based medicine (EBM), few assess all aspects of EBM - including knowledge, skills attitudes and behaviour - or have been psychometrically evaluated.
A McCluskey, D George, D Ilic, D Ilic, D Ilic, D Sackett, Dragan Ilic, E Dinkevich, E Meats, Elmer Villanueva, G Guyatt, J Fliegel, J Jones, J Nunnally, J Spencer, J Tilson, J Tilson, Julie K Tilson, K Ramos, L Aiken, L Fritsche, M Dawes, P Kline, Paul Glasziou, R Ebel, R Jackson, Rusli Bin Nordin, T Shaneyfelt   +27 more
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Item validity vs. item discrimination index: a redundancy?

Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2018
In several literatures about evaluation and test analysis, it is common to find that there are calculations of item validity as well as item discrimination index (D) with different formula for each. Meanwhile, other resources said that item discrimination index could be obtained by calculating the correlation between the testee's score in a particular ...
R L Panjaitan, R Irawati, A Sujana, N Hanifah, D Djuanda   +4 more
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Development of a “Perceived Stress Scale" Based on Classical Test Theory and Graded Response Model

International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2019
Themain purpose of this study is to develop a perceived stress scale based onClassical Test Theory (CTT) and Graded Response Model (GRM); to compare theparameters of the items in the scale that are tried to be developed accordingto both models, and to ...
Metin Yaşar
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Psychometric properties of the Chinese (Putonghua) version of the Oxford Cognitive Screen (OCS-P) in subacute poststroke patients without neglect [PDF]

, 2018
Background Oxford Cognitive Screen is designed for assessing cognitive functions of poststroke patients.This study was aimed to assess the psychometric properties of the Chinese (Putonghua) version of theOxford Cognitive Screen-Putonghua (OCS-P) for use ...
Chan, Chetwyn C. H., Chen, Li-dian, Chien, Chi-wen, Demeyere, Nele, Hong, Wen-jun, Lau, Stephen C. L., Lee, Tatia M. C., Leung, Man-tak, Tao, Jing, Wong, Alex W. K., Yang, Shan-li   +10 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, Crall, James J, Hays, Ron D, Lee, Steve Y, Liu, Honghu, Maida, Carl A, Marcus, Marvin, Shen, Jie, Spolsky, Vladimir W, Wang, Yan, Xiong, Di   +10 more
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Ensuring the quality of multiple-choice exams administered to small cohorts: A cautionary tale

Perspectives on Medical Education, 2017
Introduction Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are a cornerstone of assessment in medical education. Monitoring item properties (difficulty and discrimination) are important means of investigating examination quality.
Meredith Young, Beth-Ann Cummings, Christina St-Onge   +2 more
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Examining the Discrimination of Binary Scored Test Items with ROC Analysis

International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2021
In this study, it was claimed that ROC analysis, which is used to determine to what extent medical diagnosis tests can be differentiated between patients and non-patients, can also be used to examine the discrimination of binary scored items in cognitive
Sait Çüm
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Using item response theory (IRT) to improve the efficiency of the Simple Clinical Colitis Activity Index (SCCAI) for patients with ulcerative colitis

BMC Gastroenterology, 2021
Background The SCCAI was designed to facilitate assessment of disease activity in ulcerative colitis (UC). We aimed to interrogate the metric properties of individual items of the SCCAI using item response theory (IRT) analysis, to simplify and improve ...
Alissa Walsh, Rena Cao, Darren Wong, Ramona Kantschuster, Lawrence Matini, Jean Wilson, Andrey Kormilitzin, Matthew South, Simon Travis, Sarah Bauermeister   +9 more
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