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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"test construction"”.
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Test Discrimination and Test Construction for Cognitive Diagnosis
… in the analysis and interpretation of existing tests, little has been developed to specify how one might construct a good test using aspects of the CDMs. This paper discusses the derivation of a general CDM index and three attribute level CDM indices based on Kullback-Leibler information. These …
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Interactive Test Construction and Administration in the Generative Exam System
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Deconstructing a domain into its cognitive attributes: test construction and data analysis
If a cognitive model of learning provides the framework for both the educational system (i.e., curriculum, instruction, and assessment) and the design of the assessment, then both learning and instruction are optimized (Huff & Goodman, 2007). In this paper I describe the process of creating a …
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A description, analysis, and evaluation of selected measurement instruments in art education with recommendations for test construction and use in schools in Taiwan, R.O.C., and U.S.A
… assumption to clarify the nature of art tests; and (c) to make recommendations for the appropriate construction and use of art tests in educational settings in both Taiwan, R.O.C., and the U.S.
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A New IRT Approach to Test Construction and Scoring Designed to Reduce the Effects of Faking in Personality Assessment: The Generalized Graded Unfolding Model for Multi -Unidimensional Paired Comparison Responses
… by motivational factors present in the testing situation. In employment settings, individuals may fake good to raise their scores and increase their chances of being hired; in judicial settings, individuals may fake bad to lower their scores and reduce the likelihood of being judged …
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Computer-Made Versus Handmade Tests in a Mathematical Modeling Course: Effectiveness and Efficiency
… the effectiveness and efficiency of two test construction methods, one manual and the other computer, using test scores and test construction times from different class sections of a college mathematical modeling course. The statistical test ANOVA was used to calculate the effectiveness …
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Interactive testing program
… design, and implementation of an interactive testing program that was written in VAX-BASIC, and implemented on a VAX-11/780. Computer-assisted test construction and administration are discussed. Free response test items and response selection test items are discussed and implemented as are …
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Developing a Measure of Inclusiveness: Factors, Reliability, and Relationship to Job Satisfaction and Intention to Quit
… on the integration of prior research and theory. Test construction consisted of conceptual item development, expert review, and editing by members of the participating organization to improve clarity. Survey items were administered to employees at a large, mid-western transit agency as part of a …
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The Adult Scale Of Parental Attachment-Short Form: Item Selection, Factor Structure, And Psychometric Properties
… the conceptual underpinnings of Classical Test Theory and factor analysis, a 40-item version of the ASPA (called the ASPA-SF) was created from 1,075 archived responses through a test construction and test tryout. Building upon this procedure, the substantiation of the ASPA-SF was …
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The Speaking Cognitions and Attention Scale: An Empirically-Derived Measure of Public Speaking Anxiety
… in recent decades regarding empirical methods of test construction, including item generation and determination of subscale composition. The current study administered 35 empirically-generated cognitive self-statement items related to speaking anxiety to a sample of 367 undergraduate students …
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Detection of sparse mixtures: fundamental limits and algorithms
… mixture detection problem as a binary hypothesis testing problem. Under the null hypothesis, we observe i.i.d. samples from a known noise distribution. Under the alternative hypothesis, we observe i.i.d. samples from a mixture of the noise distribution and signal distribution. The noise and signal …
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Validity and Validation in Psychology
How well does a psychological test measure its target? This is the nagging question which motivates my thesis. If we define well-being in a certain way how do we know our test scores track this psychological attribute, and not something else? Within psychology the twin terms which are most often …
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Establishing Cultural Relevance and Measurement Equivalence Using Emic and Etic Items (cross-Cultural, Philippines, Job Satisfaction)
… of this thesis is the development of a test construction procedure that appropriately addresses the accomplishment of the objectives of cross-cultural organizational research. Including both emic (culture-specific) and etic (culture-general) items in a measure generates a measure that is …
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Development and Psychometric Validation of the State-Trait Spirituality Inventory
… validated according to psychometric methods of test construction. In its current form, the STSI contains seven state spirituality items and six trait spirituality items. A thorough review of the literature identified common themes in spirituality definitions and assisted in developing …
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Item Properties and the Validity of Personality Assessment
… properties that we know can affect personality test validity.
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The lessons learnt from the administration of the annual national assessment during implementation in the Umkhanyakude district
… is the largest roll-out of any standardized test within the South African education system especially at the General Education and Training (GET) phase. Teachers generally appreciated ANA as low stakes and a diagnostic assessment when it was implemented, whiles education officials commended …
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An Empirical Investigation of Several Critical Psychometrical Issues in Neuropsychological Testing of Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries
… Although there have been many neuropsychological tests used to identify the effects of concussion, there are several major concerns of the methodological soundness and psychometric quality of commonly used practices. The purpose of this study was to examine the commonly used neuropsychological …
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Evaluating the content validity of the dimensions of a questionnaire measuring factors associated with substance use in adolescents in low socio-economic status communities
Substance abuse is recognised as one of the greatest health and social problems in South Africa (SA). There is a need to explore the problem of substance use in the South African context in terms of the Bio-ecological Systems Theoretical Framework. All of the reviewed local and international …
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Student science achievement and the integration of indigenous knowledge in the classroom and on standardized tests
… students' achievement on science standardized tests when indigenous knowledge is integrated into the test questions. However, there has been an increased amount of research investigating the impact of culturally relevant curriculum adaptations on indigenous students' achievement in standardized …
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