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Using Learning by Doing to Teach the Development of a Likert Scale for Measuring Attitude [PDF]
Tutorials in Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 2022 Knowing how to create Likert scales in quantitative research is almost a necessity. This vignette presents an activity to help students learn how to develop an attitude scale using Likert’s method, attitude being a key concept in psychology and related ...
Renaud, Jean-Sébastien, Valois, Pierre
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A dialectic on validity: Explanation-focused and the many ways of being human
International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2023 In line with the journal volume’s theme, this essay considers lessons from the past and visions for the future of test validity. In the first part of the essay, a description of historical trends in test validity since the early 1900s leads to the ...
Bruno D. Zumbo
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On the Depth of Decision Trees with Hypotheses
Entropy, 2022 In this paper, based on the results of rough set theory, test theory, and exact learning, we investigate decision trees over infinite sets of binary attributes represented as infinite binary information systems.
Mikhail Moshkov
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Testing Metabolic Theories [PDF]
The American Naturalist, 2012 Metabolism is the process by which individual organisms acquire energy and materials from their environment and use them for maintenance, differentiation, growth, and reproduction. There has been a recent push to build an individual-based metabolic underpinning into ecological theory-that is, a metabolic theory of ecology.
Kearney, Michael R., White, Craig R.
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Patient Simulation: A Literary Synthesis of Assessment Tools in Anesthesiology [PDF]
Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions, 2009 High-fidelity patient simulation (HFPS) has been hypothesized as a modality for assessing competency of knowledge and skill in patient simulation, but uniform methods for HFPS performance assessment (PA) have not yet been completely achieved ...
Alice A. Edler +6 more
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Theory and experiment of tribological test methods
Проблеми трибології, 2022 Based on the analysis of the current state of test methods for wear of friction pairs and the need for methods with certain operating conditions, the problem of developing a theory of test methods for wear of friction pairs according to the ball-cylinder
O. Dykha +3 more
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A test of Clar aromatic sextet theory [PDF]
Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society, 2013 The Clar aromatic sextet theory predicts that the intensity of cyclic conjugation in chevron-type benzenoid hydrocarbons monotonically decreases along the central chain. This regularity has been tested by means of several independent theoretical
Gutman Ivan +3 more
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Test of Information Theory on the Boltzmann Equation [PDF]
, 2003 We examine information theory using the steady-state Boltzmann equation. In a nonequilibrium steady-state system under steady heat conduction, the thermodynamic quantities from information theory are calculated and compared with those from the steady ...
Camacho J. +39 more
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Journal of Educational Measurement, 1994 Educational test theory consists of statistical and methodological tools to support inference about examinees’ knowledge, skills, and accomplishments. Its evolution has been shaped by the nature of users’ inferences, which have been framed almost exclusively in terms of trait and behavioral psychology, and focused on students’ tendency to act in ...
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TEST: A Tropic, Embodied, and Situated Theory of Cognition [PDF]
, 2013 TEST is a novel taxonomy of knowledge representations based on three distinct hierarchically organized representational features: Tropism, Embodiment, and Situatedness.
Fischer, Martin +3 more
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