Educational Large-Scale Assessments
Evaluating the risk of nonresponse bias in educational large-scale assessments with school nonresponse questionnaires: a theoretical study
... Survey participation rates can have a direct impact on the validity of the data collected since nonresponse always holds the risk of bias. Therefore, the International Associa- tion for the Evaluation of ...
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Assessment of fit of item response theory models used in large-scale educational survey assessments
... Table 4 shows the estimated expected log penalty per presented item based on the Gilula–Haberman approach. The two missing values in the last row denote that the cor- responding assessments (LTT math and science) ...
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How to measure and explain achievement change in large-scale assessments: A rejoinder
... Large-scale educational assessments, like any psychometric measurement, will always be surrounded by uncertainty and practical ...consequence, assessments should be designed and carried ...
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An Analysis of Large-Scale Writing Assessments in Canada (Grades 5-8)
... of large-scale testing, researchers and teachers raise concerns about over-reliance on such ...the educational system they are created to ...of large-scale English language writing ...
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18REST: a short RIASEC-interest measure for large-scale educational and vocational assessment
... in large- scale educational and labor market assessments allows to connect observed social-emotional skill levels with re- quired skill levels as described in O*NET, comparing ...
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On imputation for planned missing data in context questionnaires using plausible values: a comparison of three designs
... This paper expanded on earlier work by Weirich et al. (2014) in two ways. First, we showed that it is possible to use PVs simply and directly via nested multiple imputa- tion. Consistent with the results of Weirich et ...
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Alignment of Scores on Large-Scale Assessments and Report-Card Grades
... external assessments: provincial curriculum stan- dards and proficiency levels drove both assessments; teachers were trained to use the same rubrics as EQAO markers; an electronic browser encouraged ...
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A structural equation modeling approach for examining position effects in large-scale assessments
... of educational testing ...a large-scale ...to large-scale assessments with improved test fair- ...to assessments with a large number of items and ...computer-based ...
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Guidelines for data fusion with international large scale assessments: Insights from the TALIS PISA link
... The existing evidence about the impact of teacher quality as a determinant of student achievement in cross-national empirical studies is still scarce because traditionally there have been a shortage of adequate sources ...
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Changing times, changing needs: enhancing the utility of international large-scale assessments
... of large international surveys, a number of smaller, regional assessments began in the 1990s (Lockheed 2013; Wagemaker ...Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ); a second is the Programme d’analyse ...
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Data fusion with international large scale assessments: a case study using the OECD PISA and TALIS surveys
... impact educational performance and inequality in ...a large three level-international survey with students nested in classrooms, and in turn nested in ...
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Detecting differential item functioning using generalized logistic regression in the context of large-scale assessments
... relatively large group setting; these group sizes approximate more closely the operational context of large-scale ...ticipating educational systems, depending on the grade level (OECD ...other ...
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Human–water interface in hydrological modelling: current status and future directions
... grid scale (for Europe) to represent the effects of land ...However, scale issues arise for urban land cover due to the fact that the effect of limited urban areas on the water cycle can be diminished at a ...
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Farm diversification and market inclusion in East Europe and Central Asia
... All these developments give new opportunities and pose new challenges for market inclusion of small scale holders in modern market chains. The key challenges faced by small-scale producers and entrepreneurs ...
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Rigorous Large-Scale Educational RCTs are Often Uninformative : Should We Be Concerned?
... Precision. A second component of an RCT’s informativeness is the precision with which the effect size is estimated (i.e., the width of the confidence interval around this estimate). Precision is largely determined by the ...
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A Quality-Improvement Collaborative Project to Reduce Pressure Ulcers in PICUs
... skin assessments, (2) patient skin care, (3) patient care in- directly related to skin (pain control, nutrition, hydration), (4) products re- lated to pressure, and (5) patient/family involvement (Fig ...
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Online formative assessments: exploring their educational value
... the educational value of OFAs in the department of Obstetrics and ...formative assessments are created using articulate quiz software and students are provided with unrestricted access and they elect to ...
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A large-scale analysis study on the clinical and viral characteristics of hepatitis B infection with concurrence of hepatitis B surface or E antigens and their corresponding antibodies.
... this large-scale analysis, the clinical and viral characteristics of HBV infections with concurrent HBs Ag/antibody or HBe Ag/antibody presentations have been examined, and the results may contribute to the ...
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Improved empirical antibiotic treatment of sepsis after an educational intervention: the ABISS Edusepsis study
... Background: Early appropriate antibiotic treatment is essential in sepsis. We aimed to evaluate the impact of a multifaceted educational intervention to improve antibiotic treatment. We hypothesized that the ...
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Volume 04 Issue 02: (2015) March- April 2015
... IMF approaches and actions are different from the WB ones, considering the policies and mechanisms of each institution. The WB projects and programs are directly oriented towards the educational reforms, meanwhile ...
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