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Wang, Wen-Chung; Jin, Kuan-Yu; Qiu, Xue-Lan; Wang, Lei – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2012
In some tests, examinees are required to choose a fixed number of items from a set of given items to answer. This practice creates a challenge to standard item response models, because more capable examinees may have an advantage by making wiser choices. In this study, we developed a new class of item response models to account for the choice…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Test Items, Selection, Models
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Yang, Yang; Hu, Jun; Lv, Yingchun; Zhang, Mu – Higher Education Studies, 2013
As the tourism industry has gradually become the strategic mainstay industry of the national economy, the scope of the tourism discipline has developed rigorously. This paper makes a predictive study on the development of the scope of Guangdong provincial tourism discipline based on the artificial neural network BP model in order to find out how…
Descriptors: Tourism, Foreign Countries, Industry, Artificial Intelligence
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Dumenci, Levent; Yates, Phillip D. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2012
Estimation problems associated with the correlated-trait correlated-method (CTCM) parameterization of a multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) matrix are widely documented: the model often fails to converge; even when convergence is achieved, one or more of the parameter estimates are outside the admissible parameter space. In this study, the authors…
Descriptors: Correlation, Models, Multitrait Multimethod Techniques, Matrices