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Chenchen Ma; Jing Ouyang; Chun Wang; Gongjun Xu – Grantee Submission, 2024
Survey instruments and assessments are frequently used in many domains of social science. When the constructs that these assessments try to measure become multifaceted, multidimensional item response theory (MIRT) provides a unified framework and convenient statistical tool for item analysis, calibration, and scoring. However, the computational…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Item Response Theory, Scoring, Accuracy
Cho, Eunsoo; Fuchs, Lynn S.; Seethaler, Pamela M.; Fuchs, Douglas; Compton, Donald L. – Grantee Submission, 2019
We examined dynamic assessment's (DA's) added value over traditional assessments for identifying Spanish-speaking English learners' (ELs') risk for developing mathematics disabilities, as a function of the language of test administration (English vs. Spanish), type of math outcome, and EL's language dominance. At the start of 1st grade, ELs (N =…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Spanish Speaking
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Kachchaf, Rachel; Noble, Tracy; Rosebery, Ann; Wang, Yang; Warren, Beth; O'Connor, Mary Catherine – Grantee Submission, 2014
Most research on linguistic features of test items negatively impacting English language learners' (ELLs') performance has focused on lexical and syntactic features, rather than discourse features that operate at the level of the whole item. This mixed-methods study identified two discourse features in 162 multiple-choice items on a standardized…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Science Tests, Test Items, Discourse Analysis