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Parry, James R. – Online Submission, 2020
This paper presents research and provides a method to ensure that parallel assessments, that are generated from a large test-item database, maintain equitable difficulty and content coverage each time the assessment is presented. To maintain fairness and validity it is important that all instances of an assessment, that is intended to test the…
Descriptors: Culture Fair Tests, Difficulty Level, Test Items, Test Validity
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Albanese, Emiliano; Bütikofer, Lukas; Armijo-Olivo, Susan; Ha, Christine; Egger, Matthias – Research Synthesis Methods, 2020
Background: There is an agreement that the methodological quality of randomized trials should be assessed in systematic reviews, but there is a debate on how this should be done. We conducted a construct validation study of the Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) scale, which is widely used to assess the quality of trials in physical therapy…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Physical Therapy, Item Response Theory, Factor Analysis