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Use of Full Hierarchy Consistency Index to Assess Response Consistency

open access: yesInternational Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2017
Measurement models need to properly delineate the real aspect of examinees’ response processes for measurement accuracy purposes. To avoid invalid inferences, fit of examinees’ response data to the model is studied through person-fit statistics.
Lokman Akbay, Mustafa Kılınç
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Mixed methods research teams: leveraging integrative teamwork for addressing complex problems

open access: yesFrontiers in Education
Mixed methods research teams have garnered increased attention for their leveraging of diverse disciplinary and methodological expertise in pursuit of complex problems.
Cheryl Poth   +3 more
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The use of process data in large-scale assessments: a literature review

open access: yesLarge-scale Assessments in Education
As the use of process data in large-scale educational assessments is becoming more common, it is clear that data on examinees’ test-taking behaviors can illuminate their performance, and can have crucial ramifications concerning assessments’ validity.
Ella Anghel   +2 more
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Development and Validation of a Vertical Scale for Formative Assessment in Mathematics

open access: yesFrontiers 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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Exploring Slow Responses in International Large-Scale Assessments Using Sequential Process Analysis

open access: yesComputers
Slow responding in International Large-Scale Assessments (ILSAs) has received far less attention than rapid guessing, despite its potential to reveal heterogeneous response processes. Unlike disengaged rapid responders, slow responders may differ in time
Daniel Jerez   +2 more
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Improvement of Measurement Efficiency in Multistage Tests by Targeted Assignment

open access: yesFrontiers 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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Deep Learning Small Water Body Mapping by Transfer Learning from Sentinel-2 to PlanetScope

open access: yesRemote Sensing
Small water bodies are widely spread and play crucial roles in supporting regional agricultural and aquaculture activities. PlanetScope imagery has a high resolution (3 m) with daily global coverage and has obviously enhanced small water body mapping ...
Yuyang Li   +5 more
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The highlighting divide: does highlighting strategy help explain international gaps in reading achievement?

open access: yesLarge-scale Assessments in Education
Background While highlighting is one of the most common strategies to enhance reading comprehension, little is known about how highlighting behavior and its relationship with performance varies across cultures.
Ella Anghel, Matthias von Davier
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Predicting College Enrollment for Low-Socioeconomic-Status Students Using Machine Learning Approaches

open access: yesBig Data and Cognitive Computing
College enrollment has long been recognized as a critical pathway to better employment prospects and improved economic outcomes. However, the overall enrollment rates have declined in recent years, and students with a lower socioeconomic status (SES) or ...
Surina He   +3 more
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Benchmarking Variants of Recursive Feature Elimination: Insights from Predictive Tasks in Education and Healthcare

open access: yesInformation
Originally developed as an effective feature selection method in healthcare predictive analytics, Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE) has gained increasing popularity in Educational Data Mining (EDM) due to its ability to handle high-dimensional data and
Okan Bulut   +3 more
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