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Huebner, Alan; Skar, Gustaf B. – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2021
Writing assessments often consist of students responding to multiple prompts, which are judged by more than one rater. To establish the reliability of these assessments, there exist different methods to disentangle variation due to prompts and raters, including classical test theory, Many Facet Rasch Measurement (MFRM), and Generalizability Theory…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Test Theory, Generalizability Theory, Item Response Theory
Kaya Uyanik, Gulden; Demirtas Tolaman, Tugba; Gur Erdogan, Duygu – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2021
This paper aims to examine and assess the questions included in the "Turkish Common Exam" for sixth graders held in the first semester of 2018 which is one of the common exams carried out by The Measurement and Evaluation Centers, in terms of question structure, quality and taxonomic value. To this end, the test questions were examined…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 6, Standardized Tests, Test Items
May, Toni A.; Koskey, Kristin L. K.; Bostic, Jonathan D.; Stone, Gregory E.; Kruse, Lance M.; Matney, Gabriel – School Science and Mathematics, 2023
Determining the most appropriate method of scoring an assessment is based on multiple factors, including the intended use of results, the assessment's purpose, and time constraints. Both the dichotomous and partial credit models have their advantages, yet direct comparisons of assessment outcomes from each method are not typical with constructed…
Descriptors: Scoring, Evaluation Methods, Problem Solving, Student Evaluation
Rehab AlHakmani; Yanyan Sheng – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
The focus of this study is to use the mixture item response theory (MixIRT) model while implementing the no-U-turn sampler as a technique for investigating the presence of latent classes (i.e., subpopulations) among eighth-grade students who were administered TIMSS 2019 mathematics subtest in paper format from the gulf cooperation council (GCC)…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Item Response Theory, Grade 8, Middle School Students
Pham, Duy N.; Wells, Craig S.; Bauer, Malcolm I.; Wylie, E. Caroline; Monroe, Scott – Applied Measurement in Education, 2021
Assessments built on a theory of learning progressions are promising formative tools to support learning and teaching. The quality and usefulness of those assessments depend, in large part, on the validity of the theory-informed inferences about student learning made from the assessment results. In this study, we introduced an approach to address…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement, Middle School Students
LeBeau, Brandon; Assouline, Susan G.; Mahatmya, Duhita; Lupkowski-Shoplik, Ann – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2020
This study investigated the application of item response theory (IRT) to expand the range of ability estimates for gifted (hereinafter referred to as high-achieving) students' performance on an above-level test. Using a sample of fourth- to sixth-grade high-achieving students (N = 1,893), we conducted a study to compare estimates from two…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Test Theory, Academically Gifted, High Achievement
Frank Quansah; Edmond K. Agormedah; Francis Ankomah; Medina Srem-Sai; Regina M. Nugba; John E. Hagan Jr.; Thomas Schack – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
Teachers' Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES), since its development, has gained much popularity because of its adequate psychometric properties. Yet, scholarly information on the soundness of this instrument in the African context has not been documented. Besides, the previous validation studies on the TSES have yielded mixed results with different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Efficacy, Teacher Attitudes, Test Validity
Kason Ka Ching Cheung; Jack K. H. Pun; Xuehua Fu – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2024
Researchers in science education lacks valid and reliable instruments to assess students' "disciplinary" and "epistemic" reading of scientific texts. The main purpose of this study was to develop and validate a Reading in Science Holistic Assessment (RISHA) to assess students' holistic reading of scientific texts. RISHA…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Reading Tests, Science Education, Student Evaluation
Indra, Roni; Komariah, Aan; Nurdin, Diding; Fadhli, Rahmat – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2022
This study purposes to compare student learning activities in fully online learning and blended learning. This study uses the mixed methods approach (explanatory sequential model). 42 junior high school teachers were comprised as the sample. Learning activity questionnaire (LAQ) and interview procedures were used as a data collection tool. The…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Comparative Analysis, Learning Activities, Electronic Learning
Sun-Joo Cho; Amanda Goodwin; Matthew Naveiras; Paul De Boeck – Grantee Submission, 2024
Explanatory item response models (EIRMs) have been applied to investigate the effects of person covariates, item covariates, and their interactions in the fields of reading education and psycholinguistics. In practice, it is often assumed that the relationships between the covariates and the logit transformation of item response probability are…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Test Items, Models, Maximum Likelihood Statistics
Sun-Joo Cho; Amanda Goodwin; Matthew Naveiras; Paul De Boeck – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2024
Explanatory item response models (EIRMs) have been applied to investigate the effects of person covariates, item covariates, and their interactions in the fields of reading education and psycholinguistics. In practice, it is often assumed that the relationships between the covariates and the logit transformation of item response probability are…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Test Items, Models, Maximum Likelihood Statistics
Soland, James – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2022
Considerable thought is often put into designing randomized control trials (RCTs). From power analyses and complex sampling designs implemented preintervention to nuanced quasi-experimental models used to estimate treatment effects postintervention, RCT design can be quite complicated. Yet when psychological constructs measured using survey scales…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Surveys, Scoring, Randomized Controlled Trials
Nagy, Gabriel; Ulitzsch, Esther; Lindner, Marlit Annalena – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2023
Background: Item response times in computerized assessments are frequently used to identify rapid guessing behaviour as a manifestation of response disengagement. However, non-rapid responses (i.e., with longer response times) are not necessarily engaged, which means that response-time-based procedures could overlook disengaged responses.…
Descriptors: Guessing (Tests), Academic Persistence, Learner Engagement, Computer Assisted Testing
Shah, Meetal Jaswant – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Significant attention is being paid to how assessments aligned to learning trajectories (LTs) can be used as a means to locate students' progress in learning big ideas in mathematics over time. Furthermore, data from LT-aligned assessments have been signaled as key to driving student-centered instruction on a day-to-day basis. For LTs and…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Middle School Students, Validity, Models
Huang, Yun; Dang, Steven; Richey, J. Elizabeth; Asher, Michael; Lobczowski, Nikki G.; Chine, Danielle; McLaughlin, Elizabeth A.; Harackiewicz, Judith M.; Aleven, Vincent; Koedinger, Kenneth – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2022
Gaming the system, a behavior in which learners exploit a system's properties to make progress while avoiding learning, has frequently been shown to be associated with lower learning. However, when we applied a previously validated gaming detector across conditions in experiments with an algebra tutor, the detected gaming was not associated with…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Learner Engagement, Student Behavior, Student Motivation