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Gübes, Nese Öztürk – Participatory Educational Research, 2021
The aim of this study is to show how a many-facet Rasch measurement model (MFRM) can be used for quality control whilst monitoring a musical aptitude examination. The data used in this study was gathered from a musical aptitude examination which was applied in 2019-2020 academic year for selecting teacher candidates to a music education department…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teacher Education
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Emrah Higde; Ahmet Volkan Yüzüak; Zekiye Merve Öcal; Hilal Aktamis – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2024
The Many-Facet Rasch model is frequently used to analyse and minimize disparities in rater (judge) severity in performance evaluations, in which raters assign scores to test-takers' performances. In this research, the aim of the present study was to analyse science teacher candidates' laboratory activities by using the Many-facet Rasch model.…
Descriptors: Science Laboratories, Learning Activities, Science Process Skills, Student Attitudes
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Turkan, Azmi; Cetin, Bayram – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
Validity and reliability are among the most crucial characteristics of a test. One of the steps to make sure that a test is valid and reliable is to examine the bias in test items. The purpose of this study was to examine the bias in 2012 Placement Test items in terms of gender variable using Rasch Model in Turkey. The sample of this study was…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Gender Differences, Test Bias, Test Items
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Demir, Ergul – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2018
Purpose: The answer-copying tendency has the potential to detect suspicious answer patterns for prior distributions of statistical detection techniques. The aim of this study is to develop a valid and reliable measurement tool as a scale in order to observe the tendency of university students' copying of answers. Also, it is aimed to provide…
Descriptors: College Students, Cheating, Test Construction, Student Behavior
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Teker, Gulsen Tasdelen; Dogan, Nuri – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2015
Reliability and differential item functioning (DIF) analyses were conducted on testlets displaying local item dependence in this study. The data set employed in the research was obtained from the answers given by 1,500 students to the 20 items included in six testlets given in English Proficiency Exam by the School of Foreign Languages of a state…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Items, Test Bias, Item Response Theory
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Razi, Salim – Online Submission, 2012
This study presents the processes of developing and establishing reliability and validity of a reading test by administering an integrative approach as conventional reliability and validity measures superficially reveals the difficulty of a reading test. In this respect, analysing vocabulary frequency of the test is regarded as a more eligible way…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Reading Tests, Test Validity