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Cyrenne, Philippe; Chan, Alan – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2022
The ability of universities and colleges to predict the success of admitted students continues to be a key concern of higher education officials. Apart from a desire to see students have successful academic careers, there is also the fiscal reality of greater tuition revenues providing needed support for university budgets. Using administrative…
Descriptors: College Students, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables, Statistical Analysis
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Kim, Sooyeon; Moses, Tim – ETS Research Report Series, 2016
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the extent to which item response theory (IRT) proficiency estimation methods are robust to the presence of aberrant responses under the "GRE"® General Test multistage adaptive testing (MST) design. To that end, a wide range of atypical response behaviors affecting as much as 10% of the test items…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Computation, Robustness (Statistics), Response Style (Tests)