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Blackwell, Matthew; Honaker, James; King, Gary – Sociological Methods & Research, 2017
We extend a unified and easy-to-use approach to measurement error and missing data. In our companion article, Blackwell, Honaker, and King give an intuitive overview of the new technique, along with practical suggestions and empirical applications. Here, we offer more precise technical details, more sophisticated measurement error model…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Correlation, Simulation, Bayesian Statistics
Martinkova, Patricia; Goldhaber, Dan – Center for Education Data & Research, 2015
Inter-rater reliability, commonly assessed by intra-class correlation coefficient ICC, is an important index for describing the extent to which there is consistency amongst two or more raters in assigned measures. In organizational research, the data structure is often hierarchical and designs deviate substantially from the ideal of a balanced…
Descriptors: Teacher Selection, Interrater Reliability, Public School Teachers, Hierarchical Linear Modeling
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Bekele, Rahel; McPherson, Maggie – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
This research work presents a Bayesian Performance Prediction Model that was created in order to determine the strength of personality traits in predicting the level of mathematics performance of high school students in Addis Ababa. It is an automated tool that can be used to collect information from students for the purpose of effective group…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personality Traits, Mathematics Education, Prediction
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Laru, Jari; Naykki, Piia; Jarvela, Sanna – Internet and Higher Education, 2012
In this single-case study, small groups of learners were supported by use of multiple social software tools and face-to-face activities in the context of higher education. The aim of the study was to explore how designed learning activities contribute to students' learning outcomes by studying probabilistic dependencies between the variables.…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Cooperative Learning, Group Activities
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Goodson, Justin; Jang, Wooseung; Rantz, Marilyn – Gerontologist, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this research is twofold. The first purpose is to utilize a new methodology (Bayesian networks) for aggregating various quality indicators to measure the overall quality of care in nursing homes. The second is to provide new insight into the relationships that exist among various measures of quality and how such measures…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Nursing Homes, Measurement Techniques, Evaluation Methods
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Sinharay, Sandip; Johnson, Matthew S.; Stern, Hal S. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 2006
Model checking in item response theory (IRT) is an underdeveloped area. There is no universally accepted tool for checking IRT models. The posterior predictive model-checking method is a popular Bayesian model-checking tool because it has intuitive appeal, is simple to apply, has a strong theoretical basis, and can provide graphical or numerical…
Descriptors: Predictive Measurement, Item Response Theory, Bayesian Statistics, Models