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Ricardo Colaço; Pedro Freitas; Luis Catela Nunes; Ana Balcão Reis – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2025
We analyse the PISA-reported convergence in the performance of private and public schools in Portugal. When PISA sampling weights are used, the number of students enrolled in those types of schools and specific grades/tracks of study differs significantly from official population figures. To account for those differences, we apply a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
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Kim, Hyung Jin; Lee, Won-Chan – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2022
Orlando and Thissen (2000) introduced the "S - X[superscript 2]" item-fit index for testing goodness-of-fit with dichotomous item response theory (IRT) models. This study considers and evaluates an alternative approach for computing "S - X[superscript 2]" values and other factors associated with collapsing tables of observed…
Descriptors: Goodness of Fit, Test Items, Item Response Theory, Computation