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Stephan Scrofani – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The theoretical basis of the proposed study is drawn from an ecological-transactional (Lynch & Cicchetti, 1998) systems approach to development, which focuses on contexts, and correspondingly, overlays the gender affirmative model's (GAM) transactional model of support (Keomeier & Ehrensaft, 2018) to reveal protection in the school…
Descriptors: Sex Fairness, Equal Education, Educational Environment, High School Students
Rachel A. Gross – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The present study was motivated by the theory-method mismatch between heterotypic continuity (aspects of development that manifest differently across the lifespan thus cannot be measured the same way over time) and longitudinal measurement equivalence (the statistical assumption that the developmental phenomenon studied is measured on the same…
Descriptors: Robustness (Statistics), Structural Equation Models, Longitudinal Studies, Error of Measurement
Carroll, Ian A. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Item exposure control is, relative to adaptive testing, a nascent concept that has emerged only in the last two to three decades on an academic basis as a practical issue in high-stakes computerized adaptive tests. This study aims to implement a new strategy in item exposure control by incorporating the standard error of the ability estimate into…
Descriptors: Test Items, Computer Assisted Testing, Selection, Adaptive Testing