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Walter M. Stroup; Anthony Petrosino; Corey Brady; Karen Duseau – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2023
Tests of statistical significance often play a decisive role in establishing the empirical warrant of evidence-based research in education. The results from pattern-based assessment items, as introduced in this paper, are categorical and multimodal and do not immediately support the use of measures of central tendency as typically related to…
Descriptors: Statistical Significance, Comparative Analysis, Research Methodology, Evaluation Methods
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Golino, Hudson F.; Gomes, Cristiano M. A. – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2016
This paper presents a non-parametric imputation technique, named random forest, from the machine learning field. The random forest procedure has two main tuning parameters: the number of trees grown in the prediction and the number of predictors used. Fifty experimental conditions were created in the imputation procedure, with different…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Regression (Statistics), Difficulty Level, Goodness of Fit