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Measuring Professional Competency in School Counselors: Development and Rasch Validation of a Multidimensional Instrument [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

open access: yesF1000Research
Background The measurement of professional competency in school counseling remains methodologically constrained by fragmented domain assessment and heavy reliance on classical test theory approaches. There is a critical need for an empirically calibrated
Mutmainnah .   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Government Formation in the European Union: Parliamentary Confirmation Hearings

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The confirmation hearings of Commissioner‐designates in the European Parliament provide a unique opportunity to study the balance of power between the Council, the Commission and the European Parliament, as well as the role of party politics and overlapping loyalties in the European Union's multilevel system of governance.
Daniel Finke
wiley   +1 more source

The futuristic manifolds of REM sleep

open access: yesJournal of Sleep Research, Volume 34, Issue 2, April 2025.
Summary Since one of its first descriptions 70 years ago, rapid eye movement sleep has continually inspired and excited new generations of sleep researchers. Despite significant advancements in understanding its neurocircuitry, underlying mechanisms and microstates, many questions regarding its function, especially beyond the early neurodevelopment ...
Liborio Parrino, Ivana Rosenzweig
wiley   +1 more source

Towards validation of a rational number instrument: An application of Rasch measurement theory

open access: yesPythagoras, 2019
The rational number knowledge of student teachers, in particular the equivalence of fractions, decimals, and percentages, and their comparison and ordering, is the focus of this article.
Jeremiah Maseko   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Item Response Theory Approach to the Maintenance of Standards in Public Examinations in England [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Every year outcomes from public examinations in the UK rise: politicians congratulate pupils on their hard earned achievement; the media questions whether this achievement is real; those responsible for administrating the examinations defend their ...
WHEADON, CHRISTOPHER,BRIAN   +1 more
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Sleep Preserves, Wake Differentiates: Strength‐Dependent Forgetting of Declarative Memories Across the Retention Interval

open access: yesJournal of Sleep Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sleep benefits memory, but the extend to which this benefit depends on initial memory strength remains heavily debated. We examined whether sleep preferentially stabilises weakly versus strongly encoded declarative memories, and whether classical sleep oscillations contribute to this effect.
M. Schabus, M. S. Ameen, D. P. J. Heib
wiley   +1 more source

Measurement of level of PTSD with the International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ): bias and precision when using full ordinal or dichotomized items

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Psychotraumatology
Background: The introduction of the WHO ICD-11 created a need for reliable and valid measures of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and complex PTSD (CPTSD).
Tine Nielsen   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sodium Oxybate Alters Sleep Architecture and Reduces Emotional Selectivity in Memory‐Related Responses

open access: yesJournal of Sleep Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sleep supports memory consolidation. Non‐rapid eye movement (NREM) and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep have been proposed to support, respectively, declarative memory consolidation and the integration of the memory affective dimension. Here, we used sodium oxybate (SXB) to modify the NREM/REM proportion during one sleep night and assessed ...
Laure Colin   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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