Hence, the aim of the present study is to control item difficulty intrinsically, i.e. control the item difficulty through the characteristics of the question components (reading passage, correct answer, and distractor, as illustrated in Fig. 1) during the item generation process.
The full-text question, main characteristics of the question (information content area) and the answer are registered during or immediately after the visit, call or e-mail.
Classical test theories (including Generalisability theory), widely used to investigate the quality of student assessment, make few assumptions about the characteristics of the questions such as whether they form a unidimensional construct.
To collect data on background characteristics of the questioners, we included questions on gender, age, educational level, occupation, company size, company sector and internet use.
"I'm pleased that a whole bunch of research sites combined their data to get a more characteristic evaluation of the question than ever before".
Three main fields have shaped current scholarship on Eastern Europe's communist past: institutional, especially debates concerning the characteristics of the regime; questions on resistance and opposition; and social, cultural, and everyday history.
The questionnaire as a whole had not been validated in previous studies, the performance characteristics of the individual questions are unpublished, and the questionnaire requires a degree of literacy to complete.
Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) of mice and humans have distinct molecular and biological characteristics, raising the question of whether an earlier, "naive" state of pluripotency may exist in humans.
The characteristics of the requester and the question, the time it took to answer questions, the information sources used and the extent to which we were able to answer the questions were registered.
Before you decide on a process, carefully consider the nature of the buyers, the characteristics of the asset in question, and your own priorities.
Adhesion mechanisms have been known to be dependant on the surface characteristics of the materials in question.
