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Symbolic computation of hyperbolic tangent solutions for nonlinear differential-difference equations
, 2003 A new algorithm is presented to find exact traveling wave solutions of differential-difference equations in terms of tanh functions. For systems with parameters, the algorithm determines the conditions on the parameters so that the equations might admit ...
Ablowitz +52 more
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Augmented Weighted Estimators Dealing with Practical Positivity Violation to Causal inferences in a Random Coefficient Model. [PDF]
, 2019 The inverse probability of treatment weighted (IPTW) estimator can be used to make causal inferences under two assumptions: (1) no unobserved confounders (ignorability) and (2) positive probability of treatment and of control at every level of the ...
Qi, Lihong +2 more
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Item response theory in educational assessment and evaluation
Mesure et Évaluation en Éducation, 2008 Item response theory provides a useful and theoretically well-founded framework for educational measurement. It supports such activities as the construction of measurement instruments, linking and equating measurements, and evaluation of test bias and ...
Cees A.W. Glas
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Using Burke's Dramatistic Pentad to Interpret Chinese "Gao-Kao" High Stakes Testing and Stressing - Paralelled Testing in the U.S. as Cross-Cultural Context [PDF]
KOME: An International Journal of Pure Communication Inquiry, 2013 The Chinese College Entrance Examination (“Gao-Kao”) is the mosthigh stakes assessment in China and parallels the most competitive examinations globally.
Jim Schnell, Xiaoting Huang, Lei Wang
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The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites [PDF]
This paper estimates a dynamic model of schooling attainment to investigate the sources of discrepancy by race and ethnicity in college attendance. When the returns to college education rose, college enrollment of whites responded much more quickly than ...
James J. Heckman, Stephen V. Cameron
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We propose an incentive pay scheme for educators that links educator compensation to the ranks of their students within appropriately defined comparison sets, and we show that under certain conditions our scheme induces teachers to allocate socially ...
Derek Neal, Gadi Barlevy
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Investigating Test Equating Methods in Small Samples through Various Factors.
, 2016 Semih Aşiret, Seçil Ömür Sünbül
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Book Review: Applying Test Equating Methods: Using R [PDF]
Appl Psychol Meas, 2018 europepmc +1 more source