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Lydia Bradford – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In randomized control trials (RCT), the recent focus has shifted to how an intervention yields positive results on its intended outcome. This aligns with the recent push of implementation science in healthcare (Bauer et al., 2015) but goes beyond this. RCTs have moved to evaluating the theoretical framing of the intervention as well as differing…
Descriptors: Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Mediation Theory, Randomized Controlled Trials, Research Design
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Lee, HwaYoung; Beretvas, S. Natasha – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2014
Conventional differential item functioning (DIF) detection methods (e.g., the Mantel-Haenszel test) can be used to detect DIF only across observed groups, such as gender or ethnicity. However, research has found that DIF is not typically fully explained by an observed variable. True sources of DIF may include unobserved, latent variables, such as…
Descriptors: Item Analysis, Factor Structure, Bayesian Statistics, Goodness of Fit