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Introducing Multidimensional Item Response Modeling in Health Behavior and Health Education Research
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Allen, Diane D.; Wilson, Mark – Health Education Research, 2006
When measuring participant-reported attitudes and outcomes in the behavioral sciences, there are many instances when the common measurement assumption of unidimensionality does not hold. In these cases, the application of a multidimensional measurement model is both technically appropriate and potentially advantageous in substance. In this paper,…
Descriptors: Health Education, Health Behavior, Behavior Modification, Behavior Change
A Comparison of Deterministic and Probabilistic Approaches to Measuring Learning Structures.
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Wilson, Mark – Australian Journal of Education, 1989
Structure of the Observed Learning Outcome (SOLO) science superitems were examined from the perspectives of Guttman Scaling (deterministic) and Item Response Theory (probabilistic). Differences between the measurement bases for the two approaches, and the results for a small case study, are reported. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Higher Education