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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 In this paper, a new item-weighted scheme is proposed to assess examinees’ growth in longitudinal analysis. A multidimensional Rasch model for measuring learning and change (MRMLC) and its polytomous extension is used to fit the longitudinal item ...
Xuemei Xue, Jing Lu, Jiwei Zhang
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Variational Bayesian Inference for a Polytomous-Attribute Saturated Diagnostic Classification Model with Parallel Computing [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 As a statistical tool to assist formative assessments in educational settings, diagnostic classification models (DCMs) have been increasingly used to provide diagnostic information regarding examinees' attributes. DCMs often adopt a dichotomous division such as the mastery and non-mastery of attributes to express the mastery states of attributes ...
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New robust statistical procedures for polytomous logistic regression models [PDF]
Biometrics, 2018, 2017 This paper derives a new family of estimators, namely the minimum density power divergence estimators, as a robust generalization of the maximum likelihood estimator for the polytomous logistic regression model. Based on these estimators, a family of Wald-type test statistics for linear hypotheses is introduced.
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Archives of Physiotherapy, 2021 Background People with multiple sclerosis (PwMS) frequently have impaired balance from an early stage of the disease. Balance difficulties can be divided into categories; although, to date, these lack scientific foundation.
Karl Martin Sattelmayer +7 more
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Pythagoras, 2014 Mathematical Literacy (ML) is a relatively new school subject that learners study in the final 3 years of high school and is examined as a matric subject.
Caroline Long +2 more
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The development and validation of a new resilience inventory based on inner strength
Scientific Reports, 2023 There are a number of resilience scales with good psychometric properties. However, the various scales differ in their item content in accordance with the model of resilience the developer had in mind.
Tinakon Wongpakaran +6 more
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Nordina: Nordic Studies in Science Education, 2019 Self-efficacy beliefs are significant predictors of achievement in education. However, majority of existing self-efficacy measures are rather ‘general’ and assess aggregated perceptions of students’ proficiencies within broad academic disciplines ...
Desire Alice Naigaga +3 more
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BMC Health Services Research, 2018 Background The European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q47) is widely used in assessing health literacy (HL). There has been some controversy whether the comprehensive HLS-EU-Q47 data, reflecting a conceptual model of four cognitive domains
Hanne Søberg Finbråten +5 more
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BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2022 Background Meaningfully interpreting patient-reported outcomes (PRO) results from randomized clinical trials requires that the PRO scores obtained in the trial have the same meaning across patients and previous applications of the PRO instrument ...
Angély Loubert +3 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This study focuses on the adaptation of the Georgia School Personnel Survey (GSPS) to assess perceptions of school climate among Portuguese educational professionals, including teachers and support staff. Data from two samples (n1 = 1965; n2 = 2884) were analysed in the study.
Sofia Abreu Mendes +6 more
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