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Controlling item difficulty for automatic vocabulary question generation
... the item difficulty could be controlled by the automatic ques- tion generation system using the three ...mean item difficulty among combinations of the three ...mean difficulty was not ...
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The influence of delay and item difficulty on eyewitness confidence and accuracy
... Given that in general memory tends to decline over time (Jonides et al. 2007) one might reasonably expect that both confidence and accuracy in memory to reduce over a long delay. However, it would not necessarily follow ...
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Factors Affecting Item Difficulty in English Listening Comprehension Tests
... Task difficulty is a critical issue affecting test ...the item difficulty of an assessment improves its validity and ...test item pool. A total of 150 items were analyzed, and item ...
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How Does Item Difficulty Justify Learners’ Poor Attendances in ELT Context? Behnam Behforouz
... test. Item difficulty, motivation, time, ...the item difficulty reaches 50 percent, the test has maximum reliability and validity, but classroom activists believe that difficult tests decrease ...
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Robustness of Lord’s Formulas for Item Difficulty and Discrimination Conversions Between Classical and Item Response Theory Models
... the item difficulty and item dis- crimination indices of the CTST and the two-parameter IRT model under the conditions that ability is normally distributed and there is no guessing ...needed ...
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The impact of item-writing flaws and item complexity on examination item difficulty and discrimination value
... standard item-writing flaws: longest response is correct, grammatical clues, implausible distractor, mutu- ally exclusive distractors, use of absolute terms, use of all of the above, awkward stem, ...
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Rasch Model Measurement as Tools in Assessment for Learning
... of item questions in the test; b) item difficulty level; the degree of item diffi- culty shows the proportion of students who can an- swer the item correctly from one ...of ...
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An innovative method to assess clinical reasoning skills: Clinical reasoning tests in the second national medical science Olympiad in Iran
... Among the most important strengths of the present study is the large sample of examinees from all medical universities in Iran. Moreover, we used an expert panel of teachers from different medical universities to screen, ...
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The effect of naïve theories of intelligence on metacognitive monitoring accuracy
... The sample consisted of 56 participants (46 females, 10 males), aged between 18 and 63 (M = 25.2, SD = 10.05), who were recruited, following ethics approval (Appendix A), from the University of Tasmania and the wider ...
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The Moderating Effects of Item Order Arranged by Difficulty on the Relationship between Test Anxiety and Test Performance
... and item order on test per- formance, and neglected the fact that there exists relationship between item order and test anxiety when item order or test anxiety is at the same time exerting influence ...
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DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF ORGANISMAL CLASSIFICATION ACHIEVEMENT TEST (OCAT): BASIS FOR IMPLEMENTATION AND STANDARDIZATION FOR TEST CONSTRUCTION IN JUNIOR SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL
... for item analysis. In each item, the frequency of correct scores for upper 27 and lower 27 were recorded as basis for computing the item difficulty and item discrimination indices ...
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Development of new physical activity and sedentary behavior change self-efficacy questionnaires using item response modeling
... [20]. Item Response Modeling improves on these methods by link- ing the individuals' difficulty of response to each item ...[20]. Item difficulty is particularly important as it allows ...
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Subjective caregiver burden: validity of the 10-item short version of the Burden Scale for Family Caregivers BSFC-s
... Methods: Comprehensive data from “ the IDA project ” were the basis of the calculations, which included 351 dyads and examined medical data on people with dementia, interview data from their family caregivers, and health ...
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Cognitive demands of processing expository text: Pedagogical implications for enhancing coherent text base among less skilled readers
... a) item difficulty as function of information abstractness: This score focused on whether or not information requested by the question was abstract or ...was item difficulty as function of ...
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Assessing the Psychometric Indices of Written Multiple Choice Educational Examinations of College of Paramedics of Kashan University of Medical Sciences in Education Year 2008-09
... ties. Item analysis is a procedure to check the psychometric properties of every item used in a multiple choice ...test. Item difficulty, item discr imination, and inter nal consistency ...
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Psychometric Properties of 3-, 4-, and 5-Option Item Tests: Do Test Takers’ Personality Traits Make a Difference?
... Prior research has yielded mixed results regarding what contributes psychometrically sound multiple-choice (MC) items. The purpose of the present study was, therefore, twofold: (a) to compare 3-, 4-, and 5-option ...
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Dynamic gait index post-stroke: What is the item hierarchy and what does it tell the clinician? A Rasch analysis
... an item-difficulty hierarchical order for individuals with chronic ...of item-difficulty with “step over obstacle”, “stairs”, and “level surface” being most difficult, “vertical head turn” and ...
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Investigating the Impact of Response Format on the Performance of Grammar Tests: Selected and Constructed
... appropriate item response format which can be classified as selected or ...common item equating design was used to compare multiple-choice items with their constructed response stem-equivalent in a test of ...
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Development of Objective Type Reading Comprehension Achievement Test in English for VII Class Students Dr. Madhu Gupta Professor, Dept. of Education, M.D.U Rohtak Dr. Jyoti Ahuja Assistant Professor, Vaish College of Education M.D.U Rohtak-124001 (Haryana), India
... Item analysis refers to a mixed group of statistics that are computed for each item on a ...The item analysis helps to determine the role of each item with respect to the entire ...of ...
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A Comparative Study on Item Characteristics of 2014 – 2016 Mathematics Objective Tests in Junior Secondary School Certificate Examination Questions in Rivers State
... in item 1, options B, C, D in item 2, and options A, B, C in item 43 not distracting ...in item 2 did not distract ...by item difficulty, since the remaining proportion of a ...
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