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List, Marit K.; Robitzsch, Alexander; Lüdtke, Oliver; Köller, Olaf; Nagy, Gabriel – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2017
Background: In low-stakes educational assessments, test takers might show a performance decline (PD) on end-of-test items. PD is a concern in educational assessments, especially when groups of students are to be compared on the proficiency variable because item responses gathered in the groups could be differently affected by PD. In order to…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Item Response Theory, Mathematics Tests
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Kampa, Nele; Köller, Olaf – Science Education, 2016
National and international large-scale assessments (LSA) have a major impact on educational systems, which raises fundamental questions about the validity of the measures regarding their internal structure and their relations to relevant covariates. Given its importance, research on the validity of instruments specifically developed for LSA is…
Descriptors: Verbal Ability, Academic Standards, Biology, Literacy