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Direct linkBriggs, Derek C. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2008
This article illustrates the use of an explanatory item response modeling (EIRM) approach in the context of measuring group differences in science achievement. The distinction between item response models and EIRMs, recently elaborated by De Boeck and Wilson (2004), is presented within the statistical framework of generalized linear mixed models.…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Science Tests, Measurement, Error of Measurement
Walker, Wendy D. – 1988
Despite the myth of Asian academic success, there is a distinction between the educational background and academic achievements of immigrant and refugee children from literate, urban, western-influenced backgrounds, and refugee children from pre-literate, rural cultures that are uninfluenced by Western technology and education. This is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Asian Americans, Cultural Differences, Educational Attainment
