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Rasch Analysis of Authentic Evaluation of Young Children's Functioning in Classroom Routines.
2021
This study evaluated the functioning of children in early childhood education classroom routines, using the 3M Functioning in Preschool Routines Scale. A total of 366 children aged 36 to 70 months and 22 teachers from six early childhood education centers in Spain participated in the study. The authors used the Rasch model to determine the item fit and the difficulty of the items in relation to children's ability levels in this age range. The Rasch Differential Item Functioning (DIF) analysis by child age groups showed that the item difficulty differed according to the children's age and according to their levels of competence. The results of this study supported the reliability and validit…
Rasch measurement in educational contexts Special issue 1: Rasch modeling in educational testing
2011
This is the first of two special journal issues on Rasch measurement in educational contexts. Most of the articles compiled in these two issues originate from a symposium of the same title held in ...
Rasch measurement in educational contexts Special issue 2: Applications of Rasch measurement in large-scale assessments
2011
This is the second of two special journal issues on Rasch measurement in educational contexts. Most of the articles compiled in these two issues originate from a symposium of the same title held in...
Advantages of the Rasch measurement model in analysing educational tests:an applicator's reflection
2011
Educational achievement is a very important issue for parents, teachers, and the government. An accurate measurement plays a very important role in evaluating achievement fairly, and, therefore, analysis methods have been developed considerably in recent years. Education based on long-time learning processes forms a fruitful base for item tests, as it opens up possibilities to design a nearly unlimited number of items. There are several methods available to analyse such tests, but which method is the most useful and in which situation? The Rasch measurement from the Institute for Object Measurement (IOM) has pointed out to be the most useful in evaluating individual items and their function…
Evidencias de validez interna de un instrumento para evaluar la colegialidad docente
2019
Este estudio es parte de una investigación más amplia que busca diseñar un modelo de evaluación de los sistemas educativos basado en la mejora de la cohesión social. Se trata de un estudio de validación métrica de un instrumento de evaluación de la colegialidad docente. El instrumento se aplicó a partir de las conclusiones del estudio de validación por comités de expertos. La muestra estuvo formada por 147 profesores voluntarios de primaria y secundaria de España. La metodología utilizada se basó en la recogida de evidencias métricas de validez interna del instrumento; se estudió la dimensionalidad mediante el análisis factorial exploratorio y la capacidad de discriminación mediante el anál…
Reliability and Validity of Family Affluence Scale (FAS II) among Adolescents in Beijing, China
2011
This study comprises two sub-studies. Study I assessed the test-retest reliability of Family Affluence Scale (FAS II) items among 95 students aged 11 and 15 years old in Beijing. Study II investigated the completion rate of traditional indicators (parents’ educational level, perceived family wealth, resident area, and school location) measuring socioeconomic status (SES) compared with FAS II, and examined the internal reliability, external and construct validity of the FAS II items in a population of 5876 schoolchildren aged 11, 13 and 15 years old in Beijing. Our study found that the FAS II items have high completion rates (> 99%) which are better than other SES indicators. Analyses of rel…
Ein neues Fragment des Midrasch Bereschit Rabba
2021
Unter den in Archiven und Bibliotheken erhaltenen Einband- und Makulaturfragmenten bilden die auf Hebräisch beschrifteten Reste jüdischer Handschriften eine besondere Gruppe. Die Erforschung dieser jüdischen Fragmente erfährt seit einigen Jahren in Deutschland und auch in benachbarten europäischen Ländern zunehmende Beachtung. Dennoch sind viele Funde noch unbekannt und konnten daher etwa auch im Rahmen größerer Editionsprojekte nicht berücksichtigt werden. Ihre systematische Erfassung stellt daher nach wie vor eine wichtige Aufgabe dar und wird auch in den kommenden Jahren immer wieder interessante Entdeckungen auch an entlegenen Orten zu Tage fördern. Das hier vorgestellte Blatt wurde unl…
Hierarchy of Eustress and Distress: Rasch Calibration of the Valencia Eustress-Distress Appraisal Scale
2016
The purpose of the study was to uncover the hierarchy of eustress and distress appraisal and calibrate the Valencia Eustress Distress Appraisal Scale (VEDAS, Rodríguez, Kozusznik, & Peiró, 2013) using the Rasch Analysis (RA). A cross-sectional study was conducted on sample of 603 Spanish social service professionals. The VEDAS included four subscales addressing work demands that can be appraised as sources of eustress and distress. RA was carried out for eustress and distress appraisal scales. A graduation of stressful situations appraised as distress and/or as eustress was revealed. One of the greatest sources of distress and one of the lesser sources of eustress was “switching off at …
Comparing the outcomes of two different approaches to CEFR-based rating of students’ writing performances across two European countries
2018
This study investigated to what extent two teams of experienced raters from different European countries (Finland and Austria), using their own CEFR-based rating scale (one holistic and one analytic), agreed on the CEFR level of students’ writing performances. Both teams rated one hundred performances written by Austrian secondary school students based on two tasks. The Finnish raters (N = 3) applied a holistic CEFR-linked rating scale consisting of verbatim CEFR descriptors developed in Finland, while the Austrian team (N = 6) used an analytic CEFR-linked rating scale consisting of four criteria developed in Austria. The ratings were analysed using the Rasch model. Although there were indi…
Assessing learners’ writing skills in a SLA study: Validating the rating process across tasks, scales and languages
2014
There is still relatively little research on how well the CEFR and similar holistic scales work when they are used to rate L2 texts. Using both multifaceted Rasch analyses and qualitative data from rater comments and interviews, the ratings obtained by using a CEFR-based writing scale and the Finnish National Core Curriculum scale for L2 writing were examined to validate the rating process used in the study of the linguistic basis of the CEFR in L2 Finnish and English. More specifically, we explored the quality of the ratings and the rating scales across different tasks and across the two languages. As the task is an integral part of the data-gathering procedure, the relationship of task p…