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Martin-Chang, Sandra; Levesque, Kyle – Journal of Research in Reading, 2013
Three experiments are reported that investigate the cognitive processes underlying contextual and isolated word reading. In Phase 1, undergraduate participants were exposed to 75 target words under three conditions. The participants generated 25 words from definitions, read 25 words in context and read 25 in isolation. In Phase 2, volunteers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experiments, Undergraduate Students, Recall (Psychology)
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Cheng, Ying – Psychometrika, 2009
Computerized adaptive testing (CAT) is a mode of testing which enables more efficient and accurate recovery of one or more latent traits. Traditionally, CAT is built upon Item Response Theory (IRT) models that assume unidimensionality. However, the problem of how to build CAT upon latent class models (LCM) has not been investigated until recently,…
Descriptors: Simulation, Adaptive Testing, Heuristics, Scientific Concepts