Applying Item Response Theory (IRT) Modeling to an Observational Measure of Childhood Pragmatics: The Pragmatics Observational Measure-2 [PDF]
, 2019 Assessment of pragmatic language abilities of children is important across a number of childhood developmental disorders including ADHD, language impairment and Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Cordier, Reinie +5 more
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Threat to fixation and vision‐related quality of life in patients with open‐angle glaucoma
Acta Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.Abstract Purpose We aimed to investigate the association between overlapping threat to fixation (TTF) and vision‐related quality of life (VRQoL) in patients with manifest open‐angle glaucoma (OAG). Methods Overall, 316 patients with manifest OAG were recruited from the glaucoma outpatient department of Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden, between ...
Charlotte Almer, Dorothea Peters
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PSYCHOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS OF A SPANISH TRANSLATION OF THE MANCHESTER FOOT PAIN AND DISABILITY INDEX: VALIDATION AND RASCH ANALYSIS [PDF]
, 2013 Background: The Manchester Foot Pain and Disability Index (MFPDI) is a self-assessment questionnaire developed in the UK to measure foot pain and disability in the general population1.
Alcacer-Pitarch, Begonya +6 more
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Acta Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.Abstract Aim To evaluate the impact of initial mono‐ versus multitherapy on the ocular surface and related quality of life after 5 years follow‐up in the Glaucoma Intensive Treatment Study (GITS). Method The study included patients with primary open‐angle glaucoma and pseudoexfoliation glaucoma who completed 5‐year follow‐up in GITS.
Gauti Jóhannesson +6 more
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Making Rasch decisions: The use of Rasch analysis in the construction of preference based health related quality of life instruments [PDF]
Objective: To set out the methodological process for using Rasch analysis alongside traditional psychometric methods in the development of a health state classification that is amenable to valuation.
Brazier, J. +4 more
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Deconstructing therapy outcome measurement with Rasch analysis of a measure of general clinical distress: the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised [PDF]
, 2006 Rasch analysis was used to illustrate the usefulness of item-level analyses for evaluating a common therapy outcome measure of general clinical distress, the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R; Derogatis, 1994).
Beltyukova, Svetlana A. +5 more
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Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.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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Marker effects and examination reliability: a comparative exploration from the perspectives of generalizability theory, Rasch modelling and multilevel modelling [PDF]
, 2013 This study looked at how three different analysis methods could help us to understand rater effects on exam reliability. The techniques we looked at were: generalizability theory (G-theory) item response theory (IRT): in particular the Many-Facets ...
Baird, Jo-Anne +4 more
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For a Caring Geography: Situated Solidarities and Feminist Care Ethics During and Beyond Crisis
Area, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper calls for a caring geography that centres care and solidarity as interrelated, embodied practices rather than abstract concepts. Drawing on feminist ethics of care and scholarship on geographies of solidarity, I argue that care becomes politically transformative when coupled with solidarity, understood as negotiated mutuality across
Matina Kapsali
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Anchor methods for DIF detection: A comparison of the iterative forward, backward, constant and all-other anchor class [PDF]
, 2013 In the analysis of differential item functioning (DIF) using item response theory (IRT), a common metric is necessary to compare item parameters between groups of test-takers.
Kopf, Julia +2 more
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