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Direct linkMcIntosh, James – European Education, 2019
This article examines whether the way that PISA models item outcomes in mathematics affects the validity of its country rankings. As an alternative to PISA methodology, a two-parameter logistic model is applied to PISA mathematics item data from Italy and Spain for the year 2009. In the estimation procedure, item difficulty and dispersion…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
Whitburn, Ben – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2016
Aligned with the broader movement from structuralism to the post-structuralisms [Lather, P. 2013. "Methodology-21: What Do We Do in the Afterward?" "International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education" 26 (6): 634-645; St. Pierre, E. A. 2009. "Afterword: Decentering Voice in Qualitative Inquiry." In "Voice…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Research, Research Methodology, Postmodernism
Oliva, Alfredo; Parra, Águeda; Reina, M. Carmen – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2014
Background: Over the past decades, ample empirical evidence has been collected about the factors linked to internalizing problems during adolescence. However, there is a lack of research that use holistic approaches to study the joint analysis of a series of contextual and personal variables considered to be related to internalizing problems.…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Adolescents, Holistic Approach, Research Methodology
