Sentence examples for difficulty proportion from inspiring English sources

For each question, we calculated the index of difficulty (proportion of students who selected an incorrect response), the discrimination index (D), the item discrimination efficiency (D.E ., and the point-biserial correlation (rpb).

The possible score for each item within a domain ranged from 1: unable to do to 5: able to do without any difficulty ¥ Proportion of consumers who scored 1 to 4 indicating any level of difficulty difficulty with domain items; § Proportion of consumers who scored 5, indicating no difficulty with domain items.

Despite these difficulties increasing proportions of deaths are occurring outside hospital in patients that survive longer.

Item difficulty measures the proportion of the total sample that answered a question correctly.

Item difficulty is the proportion of examinees answering the question correctly, with lower values reflecting more difficult questions [ 25].

About 40 percent reported cognitive difficulties — a chilling proportion, yet lower than I had expected.

One of the primary reasons for staging, he said, is that potential buyers often have difficulty understanding the proportions of empty rooms.

Even though they marginally satisfy the standard of aggregates, its poor quality causes difficulty in mix proportioning (Bairagi et al. 1990; Goltermann and Johansen 1997).

Some have problems at all stages, others have sporadic difficulties, and a proportion fail to graduate at all, either leaving voluntarily or having their course terminated.

Patterns of transport use in the UK suggest reduced access to private transport over time among older people with physical difficulties 39 and that the proportion of adults with mobility difficulties, age 70 years and over, reporting difficulty with travel to healthcare is greater than that for all adults with mobility difficulties.

Among them are these: "It is appropriate for spectators to applaud successful strokes in proportion to difficulty, but excess demonstrations by a player or partisans are not proper because of the possible effect upon other competitors".