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Mimi Ismail; Ahmed Al - Badri; Said Al - Senaidi – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2025
This study aimed to reveal the differences in individuals' abilities, their standard errors, and the psychometric properties of the test according to the two methods of applying the test (electronic and paper). The descriptive approach was used to achieve the study's objectives. The study sample consisted of 74 male and female students at the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Psychometrics, Item Response Theory
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Zheng, Xiaying; Yang, Ji Seung – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2021
The purpose of this paper is to briefly introduce two most common applications of multiple group item response theory (IRT) models, namely detecting differential item functioning (DIF) analysis and nonequivalent group score linking with a simultaneous calibration. We illustrate how to conduct those analyses using the "Stata" item…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Test Bias, Computer Software, Statistical Analysis
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von Davier, Matthias; Tyack, Lillian; Khorramdel, Lale – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2023
Automated scoring of free drawings or images as responses has yet to be used in large-scale assessments of student achievement. In this study, we propose artificial neural networks to classify these types of graphical responses from a TIMSS 2019 item. We are comparing classification accuracy of convolutional and feed-forward approaches. Our…
Descriptors: Scoring, Networks, Artificial Intelligence, Elementary Secondary Education
Beauchamp, David; Constantinou, Filio – Research Matters, 2020
Assessment is a useful process as it provides various stakeholders (e.g., teachers, parents, government, employers) with information about students' competence in a particular subject area. However, for the information generated by assessment to be useful, it needs to support valid inferences. One factor that can undermine the validity of…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Inferences, Validity, Language Usage
Mullis, Ina V. S., Ed.; Martin, Michael O., Ed.; von Davier, Matthias, Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2021
TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) is a long-standing international assessment of mathematics and science at the fourth and eighth grades that has been collecting trend data every four years since 1995. About 70 countries use TIMSS trend data for monitoring the effectiveness of their education systems in a global…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Science Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
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Yang, Ji Seung; Zheng, Xiaying – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2018
The purpose of this article is to introduce and review the capability and performance of the Stata item response theory (IRT) package that is available from Stata v.14, 2015. Using a simulated data set and a publicly available item response data set extracted from Programme of International Student Assessment, we review the IRT package from…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Item Analysis, Computer Software, Statistical Analysis
Wijekumar, Kausalai; Beerwinkle, Andrea; McKeown, Debra; Zhang, Shuai; Joshi, R. Maletesha – Grantee Submission, 2020
Main idea and summary are essential elements of reading comprehension. We report results from Grades 4 and 5 student performance on two years of state-mandated standardized reading testing which indicate that students perform statistically significantly lower on main idea and summary questions on the tests than any other question category. In this…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Grade 4, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
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Muhson, Ali; Lestari, Barkah; Supriyanto; Baroroh, Kiromim – International Journal of Instruction, 2017
Item analysis has essential roles in the learning assessment. The item analysis program is designed to measure student achievement and instructional effectiveness. This study was aimed to develop item-analysis program and verify its feasibility. This study uses a Research and Development (R & D) model. The procedure includes designing and…
Descriptors: Item Analysis, Questionnaires, Interviews, Test Items
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Debeer, Dries; Janssen, Rianne; De Boeck, Paul – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2017
When dealing with missing responses, two types of omissions can be discerned: items can be skipped or not reached by the test taker. When the occurrence of these omissions is related to the proficiency process the missingness is nonignorable. The purpose of this article is to present a tree-based IRT framework for modeling responses and omissions…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Test Items, Responses, Testing Problems
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Zehner, Fabian; Sälzer, Christine; Goldhammer, Frank – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2016
Automatic coding of short text responses opens new doors in assessment. We implemented and integrated baseline methods of natural language processing and statistical modelling by means of software components that are available under open licenses. The accuracy of automatic text coding is demonstrated by using data collected in the "Programme…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Coding, Automation, Responses
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Adeleke, A. A.; Joshua, E. O. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Physics literacy plays a crucial part in global technological development as several aspects of science and technology apply concepts and principles of physics in their operations. However, the acquisition of scientific literacy in physics in our society today is not encouraging enough to the desirable standard. Therefore, this study focuses on…
Descriptors: Physics, Secondary School Students, Scientific Literacy, Foreign Countries
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Ahmed, Tamim; Hanif, Maria – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
This study is intended to investigate student's achievement capability among two families i.e. Low and High income families and designed for primary level learners. A Reading, Arithmetic and Writing (RAW) Achievement test that was developed as a part of another research study (Tamim Ahmed Khan, 2015) was adopted for this study. Both English medium…
Descriptors: Low Income, Performance Based Assessment, Elementary School Students, Achievement Tests
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Gattamorta, Karina A.; Penfield, Randall D.; Myers, Nicholas D. – International Journal of Testing, 2012
Measurement invariance is a common consideration in the evaluation of the validity and fairness of test scores when the tested population contains distinct groups of examinees, such as examinees receiving different forms of a translated test. Measurement invariance in polytomous items has traditionally been evaluated at the item-level,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychometrics, Test Bias, Test Items
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Hu, Huiqin; Rogers, W. Todd; Vukmirovic, Zarko – Applied Psychological Measurement, 2008
Common items with inconsistent b-parameter estimates may have a serious impact on item response theory (IRT)--based equating results. To find a better way to deal with the outlier common items with inconsistent b-parameters, the current study investigated the comparability of 10 variations of four IRT-based equating methods (i.e., concurrent…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Item Analysis, Computer Simulation, Equated Scores
Adema, Jos J. – 1989
Item banks, large sets of test items, can be used for the construction of achievement tests. Mathematical programming models have been proposed for the selection of items from an item bank for a test. These models make automated test construction possible. However, to find an optimal or even an approximate optimal solution to a test construction…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Software, Item Banks