Large-scale assessments
Nested multiple imputation in large-scale assessments
... domains, large-scale assessments often use marginal maximum likelihood IRT models where person proficiency is modelled as a random ...current large-scale assessment programs missing ...
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Causal inference with large-scale assessments in education from a Bayesian perspective: a review and synthesis
... tional large-scale assessments. The field-trial stage of large-scale assessment operations might provide a fruitful testbed for this ...of large-scale ...with ...
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Evaluating the risk of nonresponse bias in educational large-scale assessments with school nonresponse questionnaires: a theoretical study
... other large-scale assessments and if nonresponse questionnaires for individuals could be developed in similar ...of large-scale ...
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Changing times, changing needs: enhancing the utility of international large-scale assessments
... regional large-scale assessments) by using it as an opportunity to build infra- structure capacity and expertise among education ministry staff and others (Wagemaker ...
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Detecting differential item functioning using generalized logistic regression in the context of large-scale assessments
... on large-scale assessments in language or cross-cultural studies, where it is not uncommon to see a large number (percent) of items flagged as DIF- ...
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Alignment of Scores on Large-Scale Assessments and Report-Card Grades
... of large-scale assessments with curriculum standards as required by NCLB, but on other forms of alignment that impinge on student ...of large-scale assessments and report cards ...
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A structural equation modeling approach for examining position effects in large-scale assessments
... computerized assessments when examinees respond to the same test items located in different positions on the ...in large-scale assessments, previous studies often used multilevel item response ...
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Data fusion with international large scale assessments: a case study using the OECD PISA and TALIS surveys
... international large scale assessments, such prior knowl- edge can come from previous fusion studies, where the prior information can be encoded as values of the hyperparameters of the fusion ...
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What Do Teacher Candidates Know About Large-Scale Assessments? What Should They Know?
... Teachers should be skilled in recognizing unethical, illegal, and otherwise inappropriate assessment methods and uses of assessment information, (pp.. Basic concepts and terminology of [r] ...
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Guidelines for data fusion with international large scale assessments: Insights from the TALIS PISA link
... When adopting this approach, the aim is to identify how teaching strategies contribute to student skill acquisition. Therefore, students’ mathematics score is our dependent variable now. Regarding this issue, although ...
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How to measure and explain achievement change in large-scale assessments: A rejoinder
... One very important variable discussed by Van den Heuvel-Panhuizen et al. (2009) is opportunity-to-learn (OTL). In fact, Hiebert and Grouws (2007) argue that OTL is the single most important predictor of student ...
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Introduction to special issue on quasi-causal methods
... of Large-Scale Assessments in Education, we offer several papers on the topic of causal inferences with international large-scale assessment (ILSA) ...
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On imputation for planned missing data in context questionnaires using plausible values: a comparison of three designs
... Rather than using dummy variables that are coded to address missing data, a general approach to incorporating PVs into the imputation of the CQ is through the use of mul- tiple imputation (Rubin 1987). A discussion of ...
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An Analysis of Large-Scale Writing Assessments in Canada (Grades 5-8)
... of large numbers of students through such tools as paper-and-pen tests; it will be quite a while before schools reach the digital capability to provide more authentic assessment tasks for all students, unless the ...
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Enhancement of large-scale flood risk assessments using building-material-based vulnerability curves for an object-based approach in urban and rural areas
... instance, large-scale flood risk models usually focus on an urban category that aggre- gates exposed elements of various types ...waters, large uncertainties exist in the simulated damage (de Moel ...
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Large Scale Centrifugation pdf
... for large scale separations, with the important exceptions of the continuing use of batch-mode basket centrifuges for the last recovery stages for white sugar and in the fresh-cut vegetable ...
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Large-Scale Secure Computation
... Note that we must be careful to ensure that the lack of full agreement on C does not unwit- tingly open the protocol to large unnecessary computation when generating the seed s. Indeed, in principle, parties in ...
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Large Scale Cognate Recovery
... Successful computational approaches have been developed for large-scale reconstruction of phyloge- nies (Ringe et al., 2002; Daum´e III and Campbell, 2007; Daum´e III, 2009; Nerbonne, 2010) and an- cestral ...
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Newcastle-Ottawa Scale: comparing reviewers’ to authors’ assessments
... reviewer assessments of the risk of bias were similar for the included and excluded ...author’s assessments were due to different in- formation available to them for assessment, or whether authors’ lack of ...
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Large Scale Lexical Analysis
... to large input corpora (> 50 mio tokens), providing a workflow which takes as input crawled corpora and provides POS-tagged lemmata ready for lexicon ...
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