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To Identify and Compare ActivPAL Objectively Measured Activity Levels with Self-Reported Activity from the International Physical Activity Questionnaire in Older Adults with Intellectual Disability
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Louise Lynch; Mary McCarron; Philip McCallion; Eilish Burke – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2025
Background: The positive impact of physical activity on health is widely known. A comparison between activPAL objective measures and International Physical Activity Questionnaire short form (IPAQ-SF) self-reported activity levels was completed with older adults with intellectual disability. Understanding differences between the two methodologies…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Questionnaires, Older Adults, Intellectual Disability
Modeling Partial Knowledge in Multiple-Choice Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment
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Kentaro Fukushima; Nao Uchida; Kensuke Okada – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2025
Diagnostic tests are typically administered in a multiple-choice (MC) format due to their advantages of objectivity and time efficiency. The MC-deterministic input, noisy "and" gate (DINA) family of models, a representative class of cognitive diagnostic models for MC items, efficiently and parsimoniously estimates the mastery profiles of…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Cognitive Measurement, Multiple Choice Tests, Educational Assessment
Lessons Learned from Developing a Very Near-Peer mOSCE
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Johnson S. Khor; Sungkyung Linda Kim – Discover Education, 2025
Objective-Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) are a valuable source of assessment for students' practical clinical and professional skills throughout their medical careers due to the OSCEs' capability to test multiple competencies in a standardized manner. Over the years, OSCEs have increasingly been integrated across medical programs to…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Medical Education, Objective Tests, Clinical Experience
Introducing/Testing New SFL-Inspired Communication/Content/Function-Focused Measures for Assessing L2 Narrative Task Performance
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Jie Qin; Dilin Liu – Applied Linguistics, 2025
In response to calls for an assessment tool that provides a separate performance dimension from the linguistic quality-oriented measures of complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) and guided by systemic functional linguistic (SFL) theories, this study introduces a set of fine-grained objective measures of communication/content/function…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Tests, Linguistic Theory