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Chen, Huilin; Chen, Jinsong – Educational Psychology, 2016
By analysing the test data of 1029 British secondary school students' performance on 20 Programme for International Student Assessment English reading items through the generalised deterministic input, noisy "and" gate (G-DINA) model, the study conducted two investigations on exploring the relationships among the five reading…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Models, Foreign Countries
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Norris, Stephen P.; Leighton, Jacqueline P.; Phillips, Linda M. – Theory and Research in Education, 2004
Many significant changes in perspective have to take place before efforts to learn the content and capabilities of children's minds can hold much sway in educational testing. The language of testing, especially of high stakes testing, remains firmly in the realm of "behaviors", "performance" and "competency" defined…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Test Construction, Test Items, Educational Testing