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Delphine Franco; Ruben Vanderlinde; Martin Valcke – European Journal of Education, 2025
Complex competences, such as managing students' aggressive behaviour, are challenging to develop during teacher training. Recently, video-based simulations have been considered promising, yet suitable assessment instruments are limitedly available. This paper reports on the design and evaluation of a video-based assessment tool tailored to measure…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Behavior, Aggression
Jing Lu; Chun Wang; Jiwei Zhang; Xue Wang – Grantee Submission, 2023
Changepoints are abrupt variations in a sequence of data in statistical inference. In educational and psychological assessments, it is pivotal to properly differentiate examinees' aberrant behaviors from solution behavior to ensure test reliability and validity. In this paper, we propose a sequential Bayesian changepoint detection algorithm to…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Behavior Patterns, Computer Assisted Testing, Accuracy
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Li, Ming; Harring, Jeffrey R. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2017
Researchers continue to be interested in efficient, accurate methods of estimating coefficients of covariates in mixture modeling. Including covariates related to the latent class analysis not only may improve the ability of the mixture model to clearly differentiate between subjects but also makes interpretation of latent group membership more…
Descriptors: Simulation, Comparative Analysis, Monte Carlo Methods, Guidelines
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McNeish, Daniel; Harring, Jeffrey R. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2017
To date, small sample problems with latent growth models (LGMs) have not received the amount of attention in the literature as related mixed-effect models (MEMs). Although many models can be interchangeably framed as a LGM or a MEM, LGMs uniquely provide criteria to assess global data-model fit. However, previous studies have demonstrated poor…
Descriptors: Growth Models, Goodness of Fit, Error Correction, Sampling
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Gnolek, Shari L.; Falciano, Vincenzo T.; Kuncl, Ralph W. – Research in Higher Education, 2014
University administrators may invest significant time and resources with the goal of improving their "U.S. News & World Report" ranking, but the real impact of these investments is not well known since, as other universities make similar changes, rankings become a moving target. This research removes the mystique of the "U.S.…
Descriptors: Universities, Achievement Rating, Educational Improvement, Evaluation Methods
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Chadli, Abdelhafid; Bendella, Fatima; Tranvouez, Erwan – Educational Technology & Society, 2015
In this paper we present an Agent-based evaluation approach in a context of Multi-agent simulation learning systems. Our evaluation model is based on a two stage assessment approach: (1) a Distributed skill evaluation combining agents and fuzzy sets theory; and (2) a Negotiation based evaluation of students' performance during a training…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Student Evaluation, Skills, Simulation
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Stuebing, Karla K.; Fletcher, Jack M.; Branum-Martin, Lee; Francis, David J. – School Psychology Review, 2012
This study used simulation techniques to evaluate the technical adequacy of three methods for the identification of specific learning disabilities via patterns of strengths and weaknesses in cognitive processing. Latent and observed data were generated and the decision-making process of each method was applied to assess concordance in…
Descriptors: Simulation, Learning Disabilities, Efficiency, Psychometrics
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Harteveld, Casper; ten Thij, Eleonore; Copier, Marinka – Simulation & Gaming, 2011
One of the goals of game designers is to design for an engaging experience and for social interaction. The question is how. We know that games can be engaging and allow for social interaction, but how do we achieve this or even improve on it? This article provides an overview of several scientific approaches that deal with this question. It…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction, Social Environment, Educational Research
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Lee, Won-Chan; Ban, Jae-Chun – Applied Measurement in Education, 2010
Various applications of item response theory often require linking to achieve a common scale for item parameter estimates obtained from different groups. This article used a simulation to examine the relative performance of four different item response theory (IRT) linking procedures in a random groups equating design: concurrent calibration with…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Simulation, Comparative Analysis, Measurement Techniques
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Chin, Jeffrey; Dukes, Richard; Gamson, William – Simulation & Gaming, 2009
This article examines the state of assessment in simulation and gaming over the past 40 years. While assessment has come slowly to many disciplines, members of the simulation and gaming community have been assessing the educational effectiveness of their experiential activities for years, in part because of skepticism from more traditional…
Descriptors: Simulation, Evaluation Research, Meta Analysis, Bibliometrics
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Kim, Seonghoon; Kolen, Michael J. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2007
Under item response theory, the characteristic curve methods (Haebara and Stocking-Lord methods) are used to link two ability scales from separate calibrations. The linking methods use their respective criterion functions that can be defined differently according to the symmetry- and distribution-related schemes. The symmetry-related scheme…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Item Response Theory, Simulation, Comparative Analysis
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Woods, Carol M. – Psychological Methods, 2006
Popular methods for fitting unidimensional item response theory (IRT) models to data assume that the latent variable is normally distributed in the population of respondents, but this can be unreasonable for some variables. Ramsay-curve IRT (RC-IRT) was developed to detect and correct for this nonnormality. The primary aims of this article are to…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Models, Evaluation Methods, Simulation
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Stadsklev, Ronald – 1970
The objectives and dimensions of this analysis system are described in SO 000 835. However, this document contains the actual instrument which was designed to provide a method of analyzing autotelic educational material such as games and simulations. It was created for curriculum supervisors, chairmen, and teachers who make curriculum decisions,…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Models
Lesniak, Robert J. – 1970
The Classroom Behavior Task, a ten-minute classroom simulation developed to measure abilities of potential urban teachers, was tested by comparing performance in the Task with on-the-job performance, using the Classroom Behavior Observation Form and a rating scale divided into "strength and sensitivity" components. Subjects of the study…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Simulation, Teacher Behavior
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Biggs, William D. – Simulation and Games, 1978
The general management simulation game, Tempomatic IV is used in a comparison of ranking and relational performance evaluation procedures. Results indicate that the relational approach has clear advantages over ranking approaches, especially in generating more useful information. Also, reliance on mechanically generated scores can lead to…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Educational Research, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
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