Search Results - subject:"Item response theory"

Anchor point selection: An approach for anchoring without anchor items

Strobl, Carolin; Kopf, Julia; Hartmann, Raphael; … - 2018

For detecting differential item functioning (DIF) between two groups of test takers, their item parameters need to be aligned in some way. Typically this is done by means of choosing a small number of so called anchor items. Here we propose an alternative strategy: the selection of an anchor...

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Economic competence in early secondary school: Evidence from a large-scale assessment in Germany

Oberrauch, Luis; Kaiser, Tim - 2018

We employ a psychometrically validated performance test to study economic competence among a large and representative sample of early secondary school students in Southwest Germany. The rich dataset allows us to study variation in economic competence across school types and observable student...

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The impact of child work on cognitive development: Results from four low to middle income countries

Keane, Michael P.; Krutikova, Sonya; Neal, Timothy - 2018

We study the relationship between child work and cognitive development in four Low and Middle Income Countries. We address a key weakness in the literature by including children's full time-use vector in the analysis, which leads to different findings from previous studies which do not...

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Anchor point selection : an approach for anchoring without anchor items

Strobl, Carolin; Kopf, Julia; Hartmann, Raphael; … - 2018

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807251

The impact of child work on cognitive development : results from four low to middle income countries

Keane, Michael P.; Krutikova, Sonya; Neal, Timothy - Institute for Fiscal Studies - 2018 - Revised November 1, 2018

We study the relationship between child work and cognitive development in four Low and Middle Income Countries. We address a key weakness in the literature by including children’s full time-use vector in the analysis, which leads to different findings from previous studies which do not...

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Economic competence in early secondary school : vidence from a large-scale assessment in Germany

Oberrauch, Luis; Kaiser, Tim - 2018

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012020053

Psychometrics with R : a review of CRAN packages for item response theory

Rusch, Thomas; Mair, Patrick; Hatzinger, Reinhold - 2013

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Probabilistische Testtheorie : Einführung mit Mathematica-Beispielen

Schuchmann, Marco - 2018 - Reprint 2018

Das Buch widmet sich der probabilistischen Testtheorie, die ihren Ursprung in der Psychologie hat. Im Gegensatz zur klasischen Testtheorie, die im wesentlichen auf der Varianzanalyse, Regressionsanalyse und Korrelationsrechnung basiert und die von quantativen Daten ausgeht, geht man bei der...

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Validation study of the Korean version of decent work scale

Lee, Yunsoo; Song, Ji Hoon; Kim, Soo Jung - In: European Journal of Training and Development 47 (2021) 1/2, pp. 43-57

, and decent work has a positive relationship with work engagement. However, based on item response theory, the assessment … environment using Rasch’s (1960) model from the perspective of item response theory. … response theory. In addition, they used classical test theory to evaluate the decent work scale’s validity and reliability …

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Detecting DIF in multidimensional forced choice measures using the Thurstonian item response theory model

Lee, Philseok; Joo, Seang-Hwane; Stark, Stephen - In: Organizational research methods : ORM 24 (2021) 4, pp. 739-771

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