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Pere J. Ferrando; Ana Hernández-Dorado; Urbano Lorenzo-Seva – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
A frequent criticism of exploratory factor analysis (EFA) is that it does not allow correlated residuals to be modelled, while they can be routinely specified in the confirmatory (CFA) model. In this article, we propose an EFA approach in which both the common factor solution and the residual matrix are unrestricted (i.e., the correlated residuals…
Descriptors: Correlation, Factor Analysis, Models, Goodness of Fit
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Tahereh Firoozi; Okan Bulut; Mark J. Gierl – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2023
The proliferation of large language models represents a paradigm shift in the landscape of automated essay scoring (AES) systems, fundamentally elevating their accuracy and efficacy. This study presents an extensive examination of large language models, with a particular emphasis on the transformative influence of transformer-based models, such as…
Descriptors: Turkish, Writing Evaluation, Essays, Accuracy
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Srour, F. Jordan; Karkoulian, Silva – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2022
The literature provides multiple measures of diversity along a single demographic dimension, but when it comes to studying the interaction of multiple diversity types (e.g. age, gender, and race), the field of useable measures diminishes. We present the use of decision trees as a machine learning technique to automatically identify the…
Descriptors: Diversity, Decision Making, Artificial Intelligence, Correlation
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Lau, Wilfred W. F.; Yuen, Allan H. K. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2009
Recent years have seen a shift in focus from assessment of learning to assessment for learning and the emergence of alternative assessment methods. However, the reliability and validity of these methods as assessment tools are still questionable. In this article, we investigated the predictive validity of measures of the Pathfinder Scaling…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Student Evaluation, Alternative Assessment, Scaling