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de León, Sara C.; Jiménez, Juan E.; García, Eduardo; Gutiérrez, Nuria; Gil, Verónica – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2021
The main purpose of this study was to validate the curriculum-based measure "Indicadores de Progreso de Aprendizaje en Matemáticas" (IPAM [Indicators of Basic Early Math Skills]) in a local, Spanish-speaking context. This tool has been designed to identify first-grade students at risk for mathematics learning disabilities. The IPAM…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Curriculum Based Assessment, Grade 1, Elementary School Students
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Ferrando, Pere J.; Anguiano-Carrasco, Cristina; Demestre, Josep – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
This article proposes a model-based procedure, intended for personality measures, for exploiting the auxiliary information provided by the certainty with which individuals answer every item (response certainty). This information is used to (a) obtain more accurate estimates of individual trait levels, and (b) provide a more detailed assessment of…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Item Response Theory, Personality Measures, Goodness of Fit
OECD Publishing, 2013
The Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) has been planned as an ongoing program of assessment. The first cycle of the assessment has involved two "rounds." The first round, which is covered by this report, took place over the period of January 2008-October 2013. The main features of the first cycle of…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Adults, Skills, Test Construction
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Hernandez, Jose M.; Rubio, Victor J.; Revuelta, Javier; Santacreu, Jose – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2006
Trait psychology implicitly assumes consistency of the personal traits. Mischel, however, argued against the idea of a general consistency of human beings. The present article aims to design a statistical procedure based on an adaptation of the pi* statistic to measure the degree of intraindividual consistency independently of the measure used.…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Reliability, Test Items, Item Response Theory