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Showing 1 to 20 of 87 for “"Item analysis"”.
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An item analysis of Wechsler-Bellevue intelligence scale form I subtests
… study was to: (1) analyze the value of subtest items in discriminating between bright, average, dull normal, borderline, and mentally defective groups; and (2) indicate the rank order of difficulty in the total population for each item.
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An Item Analysis of the Child Behavior Checklist with Preschool Children with Autism
… study was to determine if there was a group of items on the Child Behavior Checklist/1.5-5 that reliably distinguished between children with autism and referred, but non-spectrum children. A behavior rating scale was completed by parents and/or guardians of 156 preschool children with autism and …
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An evaluation of a post-entry test: An item analysis using Classical Test Theory (CTT)
<p>This study is an analysis of test reliability of two screening tasks (C-test and cloze-elide) in the Assessment of College English-International test (ACE-In), a post-entry test developed at Purdue University. The study uses Classical Test Theory (CTT) to assess the reliability of these test …
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Exploring cultural loading in the cognitive assessment of preschoolers : item analysis of the DAS-II and WPPSI-IV
… on cognitive tests. This study used Differential Item Functioning (DIF) to explore ways that individual dichotomous items on the DAS-II and WPPSI-IV were impacted by factors including race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and overall cognitive ability with a sample of preschool-age children. …
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The development of physical fitness and predictive test norms for sixth grade boys and an item analysis of the test events used
… Test of Basketball Ability. In addition each item was to be correlated against each other item to determine the validity of the entire battery. These test items were selected because they required no expensive equipment and were administrated in a very short time.
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ITEM-ANALYSIS METHODS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ILTA GUIDELINES FOR PRACTICE: A COMPARISON OF THE EFFECTS OF CLASSICAL TEST THEORY AND ITEM RESPONSE THEORY MODELS ON THE OUTCOME OF A HIGH-STAKES ENTRANCE EXAM
… Practice requires language testers to pretest items before including them on an exam, or when pretesting is not possible, to conduct post-hoc item analysis to ensure any malfunctioning items are excluded from scoring. However, the guidelines are devoid of guidance with respect to which …
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Item Bias in the Verbal Segment of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (Sat) for High School Students in the United States Virgin Islands
This dissertation reports the findings of an item bias study. The study was undertaken using the modified three parameter item response theory (IRT) technique first proposed by Linn and Harnisch (1981) and recently validated by Shepard, Camilli, and Williams (1985). The population of interest was …
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The Development and Psychometric Testing of a Hypertension Knowledge Instrument in a Vulnerable Population
… aged 18 years and older with hypertension. Item analysis was conducted to determine the reliability of the instrument. The factor structure was determined and confirmed using exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis, respectively. Logistic regression analysis was used to …
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Factors, including curriculum, that relate to test anxiety experienced by secondary students: a study based on High school and beyond
… Section 7 of the HSB cognitive test. Results of item analysis and Kuder-Richardson Internal Consistency Reliability Estimate (KR-20) indicated that the index had internal consistency and low to moderate reliability. A second item analysis, using supplemental variables, indicated that the index …
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INVESTIGATION OF THE RISE EVALUATION SYSTEM IN MONTESSORI SCHOOLS
… transcribed interviews were coded to create an item analysis.
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Father role identity : An exploration of the construct and its measurement
… An exploratory principle components factor analysis did not support the factorial structure of the SPPR. Feedback suggested participants found the instructions and some items of the SPPR difficult to understand. The outcome of a qualitative analysis of interviews of a sub group of fathers (n …
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Interactive testing program
… administration are discussed. Free response test items and response selection test items are discussed and implemented as are test, student, and item analysis statistics. The program allows the user to enter, change, delete, or add, question stems. correct answers, and incorrect answers. The …
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A Comparison of IRT and Rasch Procedures in a Mixed-Item Format Test
… the effects of test length (10, 20 and 30 items), scoring schema (proportion of dichotomous ad polytomous scoring) and item analysis model (IRT and Rasch) on the ability estimates, test information levels and optimization criteria of mixed item format tests. Polytomous item responses to 30 …
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COMPARING INCORRECT ANSWER PERCENTAGE DISPERSIONS IN STATEWIDE READING COMPREHENSION SCORES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR SCHOOL LEADERS
… 2009 Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills Item Analysis Reports provided by the Texas Education Agency. Questions addressed in this investigation were: How many students answered incorrectly on certain test items? What items had the highest frequency of a single wrong answer? Which test …
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CONTEXT EFFECTS IN THE COMPREHENSION AND PRODUCTION OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
… to complete as they thought most appropriate. Item analysis revealed a higher percentage of target completions following a literal context containing content words of the target proverb, and with each succeeding word in the stem. An interaction was also observed whereby figurative completions, …
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Stuttering as a Handicap: an Attitude Survey
… in general (n=72), and education (n=22). Item analysis and factor analysis were used to arrive at the most powerful combinations of items for expressing the targeted attitudinal dimensions. Intercorrelational analysis revealed that the resulting subtests represented unique and independent …
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Examining Construct Stability Across Career Stage Cohorts
… medical careers. The Rasch model was used for item analysis to calibrate the difficulty hierarchy of the exam items for each cohort. Correlations between the item difficulty hierarchies for each cohort supported the overall construct stability of the certification exam. Individual item function …
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Internal characteristics of the leadership behavior description questionnaire form-12
… the same leader behaviors which are included as items in the initiating structure and consideration scales. To this end, two populations were sampled; ROTC cadets and college classroom students, who differed greatly with respect to the leadership situation. Several analyses were undertaken: item …
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The development and validation of a paper and pencil achievement test in automotive mechanics
… of a number of accepted performance task items agreed upon by a jury of experts as valid for testing automotive mechanics students; 2) the formulation of each accepted performance task into a paper and pencil test item; and 3) obtaining a correlation between the two like tests of at least …
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