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Item response theory models are often applied when a number items are used to measure a unidimensional latent variable. Originally proposed and used within educational research, they are also used when focus is on physical functioning or psychological ...
Maja Olsbjerg, Karl Bang Christensen
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Response biases comprise a variety of systematic tendencies of responding to questionnaire items. Response biases exert an influence on item responses in addition to any constructs that the questionnaire is designed to measure and can therefore ...
Brown, Anna +2 more
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Background: The Schizophrenia Coping Oral Health Profile and Index (SCOOHPI) scale studies the coping strategies of schizophrenic patients with regard to oral health. The structural validity of this scale is studied has been studied using factor analyses.
Mohamad Hamad +4 more
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Influences on classification accuracy of exam sets: an example from vocational education and training [PDF]
Classification accuracy of single exams is well studied in the educational measurement literature. However, when making important decisions, such as certification decisions, one usually uses several exams: an exam set.
Eggen, T.J.H.M., Hubregtse, M.
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PurposeTo highlight the potential shortcomings associated with the current use Rasch analysis for validation of ophthalmic questionnaires, and to present an alternative application of Rasch analysis to derive insights specific to the cohort of patients ...
Richard N McNeely +4 more
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Judging similarity versus judging difference
A key feature of the polytomous Rasch model is that it entails a single classification process into one of a set of ordered response categories. The first aim of this article is to make explicit two processes in rubric designs that bring about such ...
Stephen Humphry, Paul Montuoro
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Background Procedural skills are a key element in the training of future physiotherapists. Procedural skills relate to the acquisition of appropriate motor skills, which allow the safe application of clinical procedures to patients.
Karl Martin Sattelmayer +4 more
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A Rasch Re-Analysis of the Partnership Questionnaire
The Partnership Questionnaire (PFB) is used favorably in the German language area to measure partnership quality. The goal of the present study is to re-analyze the subscales of the PFB ( Conflict Behavior, Tenderness, Communication ) via the Rasch model.
Sören Kliem +5 more
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Psychometric Evaluation of the Insomnia Severity Index in Chronic Disease Patients Using Three Complementary Approaches. [PDF]
The Bangla version of the ISI was validated among adults with chronic diseases using confirmatory factor analysis, Rasch modeling, and network analysis. Findings supported a two‐factor structure (nighttime symptoms, daytime impact) with strong reliability, measurement invariance across gender, and coherent symptom networks.
Al-Mamun F +5 more
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Multilevel IRT Modeling in Practice with the Package mlirt [PDF]
Variance component models are generally accepted for the analysis of hierarchical structured data. A shortcoming is that outcome variables are still treated as measured without an error.
Fox, Jean-Paul
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