ITEM CONSTRUCTION AND PSYCHOMETRIC MODELS APPROPRIATE FOR CONSTRUCTED RESPONSES

Psychometric Properties of 20-Item and 10-Item Persian Versions of Drug Abuse Screening Test

Introduction: Substance use disorder is one of the most critical social problems in Iran. For this disorder, weneed a proper assessment tool based on our indigenous culture. Objective: This study assesses the factor structure and psychometric properties of 10-item and 20-item Persian versions of Drug Abuse Screening Tests (DAST-10 and DAST-20). Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional s...

The Psychometric Modeling of Ordered Multiple-choice Item Responses for Diagnostic Assessment with a Learning Progression

Effect of item order on item calibration and item bank construction for computer adaptive tests

Item banks are typically constructed from responses to items that are presented in one fixed order; therefore, order effects between subsequent items may violate the independence assumption. We investigated the effect of item order on item bank construction, item calibration, and ability estimation. 15 polytomous items similar to items used in a pilot version of a computer adaptive test for anx...

Appropriate Item Partition for Improving the Mining Performance

Along with the progress of information techniques and the increase of information need, some databases in the real world grow very quickly and their sizes become very huge. If the FP-Growth procedure is directly executed on these databases to mine association rules, the computer memory may not allow all nodes of a FP-tree generated from a huge database. In this paper, a sophisticated mining app...

Psychometric item evaluations of the Recovery-Stress Questionnaire for athletes

Objectives: Using an item-based analysis, the factor structure of the Recovery-Stress Questionnaire for Athletes (RESTQ-Sport) [Kellmann, M., & Kallus, K.W. (2001). Recovery-Stress Questionnaire for Athletes: User manual. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics] was assessed as a test of its validity. The RESTQSport is a 76-item questionnaire that was developed to assess the physical and mental impact of...