Progress Monitoring of the Spelling Skills of Elementary School Students. Construction and Quality of a Curriculum-Based Measurement in GermanyAbstract. Recent German studies show a worrying situation regarding the orthographic performance of children. ...
Validation of the Adaptive Test of Emotion Knowledge (ATEM) for 3 – 9-Year-OldsAbstract. Emotion knowledge in children includes emotion recognition in other peoples’ faces, as well as understanding the internal and external causes and consequences of ...
A Yes / No Vocabulary Test for Children of Different Age Groups: Development and Validation Based on the Rasch ModelAbstract. In this article we present a vocabulary test for German primary school children. The test is based on the ...
Handling of Item Positions Effects in the Development of Computerized Adaptive TestsAbstract. In computerized adaptive testing (CAT), item parameter estimates are assumed to be known and valid for all the positions that items can be presented on in the ...
Despite the important role that teachers’ professional competencies play, domain-specific models of competence as well as established instruments to measure such competencies are lacking (e.g., Blömeke, Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Kuhn, & Fege, 2013). For ...
Local item dependence in the TestDaF reading section: A testlet response analysisTestlets are subsets of test items that are based on the same input. Tests that contain testlets are common in educational and psychological testing. However, use of ...
Zusammenfassung. Kompetenzkonstrukte in der empirischen Bildungsforschung werden in der Regel auf kontinuierlichen Skalen abgebildet. Bei der Verwendung von Messmodellen der Item-Response-Theorie (IRT) kann auf Basis der gemeinsamen Metrik für ...
Development validation and norm values of the Rasch-based Depression Screening. An overviewAbstract.Background: In the light of high prevalence for depressive disorders in patients with somatic disorders and artificial retest-effects the Rasch-based ...
Are self-reported physical complaints of children and adolescents unidimensionally and specifically objectively measurable? Analyses regarding the scalability of the Giessen Physical Complaints Inventory for children and adolescents (GBB-KJ) in the ...
Zusammenfassung. Die meisten der derzeit verfügbaren Mehriteminstrumente zur Erfassung des Wohlbefindens und der gesundheitsbezogenen Lebensqualität sind sehr lang und umfangreich, während kürzere Verfahren oft Einbußen in der Messpräzision bedingen. Die ...
The Lateral Preference Inventory: The item homogeneity of the German versionAbstract. The Lateral Preference Inventory (LPI, Coren, 1993) is a questionnaire designed to measure lateral preference on the four dimensions of handedness, footedness, eyedness,...
A computerized adaptive testing (CAT) procedure was simulated with ordinal polytomous personality data collected using a conventional paper-and-pencil testing format. An adapted Dutch version of the dominance scale of Gough and Heilbrun’s Adjective Check ...
To investigate how an existing questionnaire can be transformed into a computer-adaptive version, we developed an adaptive version of the Interpersonal Competence Questionnaire (ICQ). This adaptive version was based on a representative sample (N = 1934) ...
Traditional adaptive tests provide an efficient method for estimating student achievements levels, by adjusting the characteristics of the test questions to match the performance of each student. These traditional adaptive tests are not designed to ...
Adaptive measurement of change (AMC) was investigated by examining the recovery of true change. Monte Carlo simulation was used to compare three conventional testing (CT) methods with AMC. The CTs estimated individual change moderately well when the test ...
Construction and analysis of C-tests with Rating-Scale Rasch ModelsAbstract. C-tests are written tests of general language proficiency. They consist of a small number of mutilated texts. Test-takers have to restore the original words in each text. In the ...
Developmental steps for a computer-adapted test for anxietyAbstract. Psychological constructs are usually assessed by instruments based on classical test theory (CTT). Since the sixties, item response theory (IRT) offers a promising alternative to these ...
Evaluation of ratings: Psychometric quality assurance via many-facet Rasch measurementAbstract. Building on the many-facet Rasch measurement model (Linacre, 1989; Linacre & Wright, 2002), this paper presents a general framework of statistical procedures ...
Summary: The present study aims to investigate the dimensionality of change problems with unknown initial set and the importance of various predictor variables derived from current models of change word problem solving with respect to children's strategy ...
Development of an environmental knowledge measure: An application of the MRCML modelAbstract. Although accredited as a theoretically influential predictor of ecological behavior, environmental knowledge is generally neglected as a methodological issue. ...