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This study concerned the development of measures for youth civic development in Malaysia with four major goals in mind, namely conceptual, measurement, baseline/pragmatic, and predictive goals.
Tor, Geok Hwa
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ABSTRACT Purpose Patient activation—encompassing knowledge, confidence, and skills in managing individual's health—is a cornerstone of person‐centered care. However, its significance among childhood, adolescent, and young adult cancer survivors (CAYACS) remains unexplored. This article examines the application of the 13‐item Patient Activation Measure (
Charlotte Demoor‐Goldschmidt +12 more
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Rasch Model and Its Extensions for Analysis of Aphasic Deficits in Syntactic Comprehension
Aphasia is the loss of the ability to produce and/or comprehend language, due to injury to brain areas responsible for these functions. Aphasic patients’ performance on comprehension tests has traditionally been related both to the patient’s individual ...
DeDe, Gayle +3 more
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Individual Uncertainty and Policy Compliance During the COVID‐19 Pandemic
ABSTRACT Ample scholarship examines the extent to which public policies in representative democracies reflect the priorities and needs of the public, often finding that individuals are unaware of many policy issues and policy responses. This may be especially true when issues of risk and scientific uncertainty are involved, which can be difficult for ...
Nathan Jeschke +6 more
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Nonparametric Identification of Multivariate Mixtures [PDF]
This article analyzes the identifiability of k-variate, M-component finite mixture models in which each component distribution has independent marginals, including models in latent class analysis.
Shimotsu, Katsumi, Kasahara, Hiroyuki
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ABSTRACT Aim To predict changes in health‐related quality of life (HRQoL) when sedentary behaviour was hypothetically replaced with other movement behaviours (sleep, standing, light physical activity and moderate‐to‐vigorous physical activity) in adolescents.
Deborah M. Telford +2 more
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Psychometrics With R: A Review Of CRAN Packages For Item Response Theory
In this paper we review the current state of R packages for Item Response Theory (IRT). We group the available packages based on their purpose and provide an overview of each package's main functionality.
Mair, Patrick +2 more
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ABSTRACT This study examined the psychometric properties of two new assessment measures, which consist of developmental progressions of pre‐school children in literacy skills and mathematics skills respectively. Researchers gathered data to measure the extent of children's engagement with an educational gaming system and the skill levels they attained ...
Chuang Wang, Qiao Liu, Richard Lambert
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Rasch mxture models for DIF detection: A comparison of old and new score specifications [PDF]
Rasch mixture models can be a useful tool when checking the assumption of measurement invariance for a single Rasch model. They provide advantages compared to manifest DIF tests when the DIF groups are only weakly correlated with the manifest covariates ...
Zeileis, Achim +2 more
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Abstract Diagnostic classification models (DCMs) assess students’ mastery of cognitive attributes to provide personalized ability profiles. Retrofitting DCMs to large‐scale mathematics assessments usually relies on inferred Q‐matrices, which can reduce accuracy and diagnostic value.
Farshad Effatpanah +4 more
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