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Gonzalez, Oscar – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2023
When scores are used to make decisions about respondents, it is of interest to estimate classification accuracy (CA), the probability of making a correct decision, and classification consistency (CC), the probability of making the same decision across two parallel administrations of the measure. Model-based estimates of CA and CC computed from the…
Descriptors: Classification, Accuracy, Intervals, Probability
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Mangino, Anthony A.; Finch, W. Holmes – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2021
Oftentimes in many fields of the social and natural sciences, data are obtained within a nested structure (e.g., students within schools). To effectively analyze data with such a structure, multilevel models are frequently employed. The present study utilizes a Monte Carlo simulation to compare several novel multilevel classification algorithms…
Descriptors: Prediction, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Classification, Bayesian Statistics
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Sedat Sen; Allan S. Cohen – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2024
A Monte Carlo simulation study was conducted to compare fit indices used for detecting the correct latent class in three dichotomous mixture item response theory (IRT) models. Ten indices were considered: Akaike's information criterion (AIC), the corrected AIC (AICc), Bayesian information criterion (BIC), consistent AIC (CAIC), Draper's…
Descriptors: Goodness of Fit, Item Response Theory, Sample Size, Classification
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Huang, Hung-Yu – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2023
The forced-choice (FC) item formats used for noncognitive tests typically develop a set of response options that measure different traits and instruct respondents to make judgments among these options in terms of their preference to control the response biases that are commonly observed in normative tests. Diagnostic classification models (DCMs)…
Descriptors: Test Items, Classification, Bayesian Statistics, Decision Making
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Yang, Yanyun; Xia, Yan – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2019
When item scores are ordered categorical, categorical omega can be computed based on the parameter estimates from a factor analysis model using frequentist estimators such as diagonally weighted least squares. When the sample size is relatively small and thresholds are different across items, using diagonally weighted least squares can yield a…
Descriptors: Scores, Sample Size, Bayesian Statistics, Item Analysis
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Guerra-Peña, Kiero; Steinley, Douglas – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2016
Growth mixture modeling is generally used for two purposes: (1) to identify mixtures of normal subgroups and (2) to approximate oddly shaped distributions by a mixture of normal components. Often in applied research this methodology is applied to both of these situations indistinctly: using the same fit statistics and likelihood ratio tests. This…
Descriptors: Growth Models, Bayesian Statistics, Sampling, Statistical Inference
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Choi, In-Hee; Wilson, Mark – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2015
An essential feature of the linear logistic test model (LLTM) is that item difficulties are explained using item design properties. By taking advantage of this explanatory aspect of the LLTM, in a mixture extension of the LLTM, the meaning of latent classes is specified by how item properties affect item difficulties within each class. To improve…
Descriptors: Classification, Test Items, Difficulty Level, Statistical Analysis
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Park, Jungkyu; Yu, Hsiu-Ting – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2016
The multilevel latent class model (MLCM) is a multilevel extension of a latent class model (LCM) that is used to analyze nested structure data structure. The nonparametric version of an MLCM assumes a discrete latent variable at a higher-level nesting structure to account for the dependency among observations nested within a higher-level unit. In…
Descriptors: Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Nonparametric Statistics, Data Analysis, Simulation
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Jones, W. Paul – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2014
A study in a university clinic/laboratory investigated adaptive Bayesian scaling as a supplement to interpretation of scores on the Mini-IPIP. A "probability of belonging" in categories of low, medium, or high on each of the Big Five traits was calculated after each item response and continued until all items had been used or until a…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Personality Measures, Bayesian Statistics, Clinics
Nicole B. Kersting; Bruce L. Sherin; James W. Stigler – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2014
In this study, we explored the potential for machine scoring of short written responses to the Classroom-Video-Analysis (CVA) assessment, which is designed to measure teachers' usable mathematics teaching knowledge. We created naïve Bayes classifiers for CVA scales assessing three different topic areas and compared computer-generated scores to…
Descriptors: Scoring, Automation, Video Technology, Teacher Evaluation
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Yang, Xiangdong; Poggio, John C.; Glasnapp, Douglas R. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2006
The effects of five ability estimators, that is, maximum likelihood estimator, weighted likelihood estimator, maximum a posteriori, expected a posteriori, and Owen's sequential estimator, on the performances of the item response theory-based adaptive classification procedure on multiple categories were studied via simulations. The following…
Descriptors: Classification, Computation, Simulation, Item Response Theory