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Oliver, Renee; Williams, Robert L. – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2005
Students in four sections of an undergraduate educational course (two large and two small sections) took out-of-class practice exams prior to actual exams for each of five course units. Each course unit consisted of five class sessions focusing on a specific developmental theme. Some sections received practice-exam credit based on the number of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Predictor Variables, Contingency Management, Education Courses
Gierl, Mark J.; Leighton, Jacqueline P.; Tan, Xuan – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2006
DETECT, the acronym for Dimensionality Evaluation To Enumerate Contributing Traits, is an innovative and relatively new nonparametric dimensionality assessment procedure used to identify mutually exclusive, dimensionally homogeneous clusters of items using a genetic algorithm ( Zhang & Stout, 1999). Because the clusters of items are mutually…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Cluster Grouping, Evaluation Methods, Multivariate Analysis

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