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Data Collection Design for Equivalent Groups Equating: Using a Matrix Stratification Framework for Mixed-Format Assessment
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Mbella, Kinge Keka – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Mixed-format assessments are increasingly being used in large scale standardized assessments to measure a continuum of skills ranging from basic recall to higher order thinking skills. These assessments are usually comprised of a combination of (a) multiple-choice items which can be efficiently scored, have stable psychometric properties, and…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Test Format, Evaluation Methods, Multiple Choice Tests
Evaluating DETECT Classification Accuracy and Consistency when Data Display Complex Structure
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Gierl, Mark J.; Leighton, Jacqueline P.; Tan, Xuan – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2006
DETECT, the acronym for Dimensionality Evaluation To Enumerate Contributing Traits, is an innovative and relatively new nonparametric dimensionality assessment procedure used to identify mutually exclusive, dimensionally homogeneous clusters of items using a genetic algorithm ( Zhang & Stout, 1999). Because the clusters of items are mutually…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Cluster Grouping, Evaluation Methods, Multivariate Analysis
INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL, REPORTS ON EVALUATION, CLUSTERING, AND FEEDBACK.
SALTON, GERALD – 1967
THE TWELFTH IN A SERIES COVERING RESEARCH IN AUTOMATIC STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL, THIS REPORT IS DIVIDED INTO THREE PARTS TITLED EVALUATION, CLUSTER SEARCHING, AND USER FEEDBACK METHODS, RESPECTIVELY. THE FIRST PART, EVALUATION, CONTAINS A COMPLETE SUMMARY OF THE RETRIEVAL RESULTS DERIVED FROM SOME SIXTY DIFFERENT TEXT ANALYSIS EXPERIMENTS. IN EACH…
Descriptors: Cluster Grouping, Computational Linguistics, Correlation, Evaluation Methods