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Tatsuoka, Kikumi K.; Tatsuoka, Maurice M. – 1982
Several extended caution indices (ECIs) have been introduced earlier as a link between two distinctly different approaches: one based on standard statistics and the other, a model-based approach, utilizing item response theory (IRT). Expected values and variance of some ECIs are derived and their statistical properties are compared and discussed.…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Higher Education, Latent Trait Theory, Models
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Hamilton, Lawrence C. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1981
Errors in self-reports of three academic performance measures are analyzed. Empirical errors are shown to depart radically from both no-error and random-error assumptions. Self-reports by females depart farther from the no-error and random-error models for all three performance measures. (Author/BW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Error Patterns, Grade Point Average, Models