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Protsch, Paula – Journal of Education and Work, 2017
Employers' recruitment behaviour in entry labour markets is central for young people's transitions from school to work. Whereas previous research has focused on the effects of specific applicant characteristics, I concentrate on how organisational characteristics, namely organisation size and private or public sector affiliation, relate to…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Decision Making, Institutional Characteristics, Recruitment
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Nett, Nadine; Bröder, Arndt; Frings, Christian – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
According to distractor-based response retrieval (Frings, Rothermund, & Wentura, 2007), irrelevant information will be integrated with the response to the relevant stimuli and further, the immediate repetition of irrelevant information can retrieve the previously executed response thereby influencing responding to the current target (leading…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Experimental Psychology, Responses, Hypothesis Testing
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Doebler, Anna; Doebler, Philipp; Holling, Heinz – Psychometrika, 2013
The common way to calculate confidence intervals for item response theory models is to assume that the standardized maximum likelihood estimator for the person parameter [theta] is normally distributed. However, this approximation is often inadequate for short and medium test lengths. As a result, the coverage probabilities fall below the given…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Item Response Theory, Computation, Hypothesis Testing