During weekly time set aside for teachers teaching the same course to collaborate, they used a four - step process to help common assessments drive instruction: developing pacing guides, designing common assessments,
conducting item analysis, and engaging in instructional conversations.
When I worked as a psychometrician for large testing companies, I would always
conduct an item analysis on the test questions to ensure that they were good and reliable.
Not exact matches
Regardless of the type of legal proceeding or which side uses scientific evidence, the forensic scientist must be able to write a report and testify under oath about: what facts or
items of evidence were analyzed or tested; what tests or
analyses were used; how valid or reliable those tests or
analyses have been found to be by other courts; why and how the forensic scientist was qualified to
conduct those tests or
analyses; and, what the results of the tests or
analyses were and how those results are relevant to the issues in dispute.
It was
conducted according to the Preferred Reporting
Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta -
analyses (PRISMA) guidelines (6).
Conducting assessment
item analysis to make valid inferences that will drive subsequent teaching and learning;
We
conducted factor
analyses for a number of additional
items related to district initiatives for improvement.
Sarah also
conducts research including
analysis of assessment data using
Item Response Theory and other statistical techniques.
The Plaintiff was awarded over $ 100,000 for future care, however this amount was reduced by about 40 % by the British Columbia Court of Appeal, which stated that an
analysis of each
item claimed for future care must be
conducted
Constantly and judiciously maintained a fleet of wide strategic global sourcing contracts while
conducting thorough reviews and
analysis of local currency, supplier, location and cost in order to continuously update
items in the catalog to the appropriate region, vendor and currency conversion
A chemical lab technician or a chemical technologist is an individual who has expert knowledge of the field of chemistry and works in a laboratory to
conduct research work and
analysis on various
items, chemicals etc..
Precedent Health Center (Denver, CO) 1998 — 1999 Buyer / Inventory Clerk • Negotiated vendor purchase agreements and determined ordering schedules • Generated all company purchase orders for medical supplies, equipment, and office
items • Managed the patient change recovery system including charge entry procedures •
Conducted quality control
analysis and provided reports to senior leadership
A separate principal components
analysis (PCA) was
conducted on each subscale to ensure that all
items loaded onto one unique factor.
This review was
conducted according to the Preferred Reporting
Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta -
Analyses.
Principal components
analysis (PCA) was
conducted to explore the internal construct validity of the violence
items.
Exploratory factor
analysis (EFA) using principal component extraction method with Varimax rotation, was
conducted to determine the factor structure of the
items of the instrument (
items with factor loadings ≥ 40 were retained).
The briefer version of the PSC3 is broadly used, with > 40 published studies.23 These studies have shown that the PSC - 17 yields higher detection rates than pediatricians relying on clinical judgment alone24 and has risk rates comparable to those of the PSC - 35,3 semistructured interviews (Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School - Age Children — Present and Lifetime Version), 25 and longer questionnaire measures.2 The PSC - 17 was derived from the PSC - 35 through an exploratory factor
analysis conducted on data collected from the 1994 to 1999 Child Behavior Study (CBS), a nationally representative sample of > 20000 pediatric outpatients.3 In that study, the exploratory factor
analysis suggested that it was possible to create a briefer version of the PSC with 17 of the original 35
items.
Exploratory
analyses were
conducted to further define the effect of the interventions by relating group status to individual StimQ
items.
An unrestricted Maximum likelihood factor
analysis with Varimax rotation was
conducted with the 26
items included (we omitted the benefit and hinder
items).
For scales that consisted of more than three
items, results of previously
conducted factor
analyses and reliability assessments (i.e., factor loadings, Cronbach's alpha after an
item is deleted) were used to guide data reduction, in order to shorten scales to a maximum of three to five
items.
Given that the MDI's Physical health and well - being domain and the Constructive use of time after school domain consists of individual
items, not scales, no factor
analyses were
conducted.
Exploratory and confirmatory factor
analyses were
conducted; Cronbach's Alpha coefficients were calculated for each subscale; and... intra-class correlation coefficients were calculated for each
item.
The first
analysis was
conducted to establish a baseline model in which all
items loaded onto a single factor.
This review was
conducted according to the Preferred Reporting
Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta -
Analyses (PRISMA).
The ULS - 6 includes 6
items (see Table 1) which were selected by means of exploratory factor
analysis conducted with the
items of the R - UCLA (Neto, 1992).
A confirmatory factor
analysis (CFA) with the three dimensions as latent factors and
items as observed variables was
conducted separately for the version referring to father and the one referring to mother.
Due to the small sample size and the number of
items in each scale, it was not statistically meaningful to
conduct a factor
analysis on the father involvement measures.
ii) To additionally test for the factorial validity, we
conducted maximum - likelihood, promax - rotated factor
analyses of the 19
items.
Exploratory factor
analysis (EFA) was
conducted to identify the latent structure of the 13 -
item WFBS.
Findings for
analyses conducted with and without the two additional
items were the same.
However, we recommend that researchers control the measurement errors (e.g., correlated residuals between
items) before
conducting further
analysis.
We
conducted exploratory factor
analysis on all of the relationships
items in Table 1 to examine whether the shared activity
items (9 — 13) and the positive quality
items (1 — 5) loaded on one factor (Johnson et al., 1986).
We
conducted exploratory factor
analysis using the principal component factor method to explore the structure of the
items separately for relationship quality (Items 1 — 8) and shared activity (Items 9 —
items separately for relationship quality (
Items 1 — 8) and shared activity (Items 9 —
Items 1 — 8) and shared activity (
Items 9 —
Items 9 — 13).
Analyses were
conducted with and without Somatic Complaints
items of the CBCL.
We
conducted exploratory factor
analysis to explore the structure of the
items and compared the distribution of each scale means by age group and gender.
Factor
analysis of the 30 remaining
items was then
conducted; the scree plot indicated a one - factor solution, having an eigenvalue of 13.1 and accounting for 43.5 % of the variance.
Descriptive
analyses (frequencies, means, and skewness) were
conducted, and
items with a skewness score > 1.0 were eliminated.
Confirmatory factor
analyses (CFA) were
conducted with robust weighted least squares estimator (WLSMV) because all the
items were categorical [17].
A principal components factor
analysis was then
conducted to determine whether the remaining
items all loaded a single factor based on both the slope of scree plot as well as examination of the eigenvalues.
To ensure clarity of reporting this systematic review has been
conducted in accordance with the Preferred Reporting
Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta -
Analyses (PRISMA) Statement (Liberati et al. 2009).
A principal components factor
analysis was
conducted to determine whether the remaining
items all loaded a single factor, and
items loading < 0.60 were eliminated.
Descriptive statistics, Cronbach's α, and factor
analyses were
conducted to select
items comprising the scale prior to refining and testing it with a larger sample.
The agency
conducts a risk - benefit
analysis that allows an
item to be marketed for particular indications — sometimes requiring little or no testing.