The phrase "achieving item" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe an item that is related to achieving something, but it lacks clarity and context.
Example: "The achieving item in this project is the completion of the final report."
Alternatives: "goal item" or "target item".
A number of alternative solutions were considered (Analyses 2 4 Table 3) and to achieve item fit it was necessary to delete three of the five fatalisms items: 3 ' I've put myself in the hands of God', 8 ' I count my blessings', and 19 ' I've had a good life; what's left is a bonus' (Analysis 5 Table 3).
In the right-hand bottom corner (the 4th quadrant), there are six 'easier not achieved' items that the hospital was expected to have achieved given the performance estimate of 6.14 logits and the percentile rank of 10 (see to the right of the percentile column in Figure 2).
Nonetheless, future research that develops PROMs of patient-centred cancer care, or validates existing measures should examine test-retest reliability, with the aim of achieving high item-to-item agreement.
We considered our scale according to Herdman et al.'s [ 29] criteria for achieving cultural item equivalence.
For the past five years or so, marketers have been throwing around the term "masstige" to describe a new interest in the middle and upper-middle classes in achieving luxury items — maybe they can't afford the BMW, but they can swing the $400 Coach bag and certainly the $5 Starbucks latte, as opposed to the cup of coffee from the corner deli.
Merging the importance categories into two (<7 and ≥7) resulted in an eight-fold increase in the number of intervention items achieving consensus agreement (from two items to 18 items).
Factor analysis revealed three dimensions and achieved an item reduction of more than a third.
According to Linacre (1994) a sample size of n = 250 is sufficient to achieve stable item parameters.
Given the non-significant Bonferroni adjusted p-values for each item, and that good fit to the Rasch model for each scale was achieved, these items were retained.
Jan notes this is a theory that has, in practice (and unsurprisingly), netted No Labels a big fat goose egg in terms of achieving "a single item from its relatively modest list of goals".
