Sentence examples for discriminatory items from inspiring English sources

Table  3 summarises the findings from these papers, showing the most discriminatory items at the various stages of disease.

The most discriminatory items were: "Name pencil", "Write sentence", "Orientation to month", "Name watch", "Orientation to date", "Orientation to year", "Close eyes".

This phase aimed to identify and evaluate the adequacy of the test protocol descriptions, feasibility issues, discriminatory characteristics of items, adequate reflection of 'shoulder function' by the items, and the perceptions of participants and researchers.

In addition to the specific item fit statistics of the Rasch model, item discriminatory power from classical test theory was used to estimate the fit of the items to the total score of FK.

The final psychometric analysis consisted of item analyses (e.g., discriminatory power, distribution and item difficulty) and tests of reliability and validity of the scales/subscales.

The statistical analyses performed on test data (Q6.1b) included, in most cases, using the CTT to analyze facility value and discriminatory index at the item level; other analyses included item-total correlations, reliability coefficients, and in some cases, factor analysis.

Content validity and discriminatory power of the items were calculated.

Except Board F, the other five boards all performed statistical analyses of the pretesting data, which, in most cases, included applying the Classical Test Theory (hereafter CTT) to analyzing the facility value and discriminatory index of the items being pretested (Q2.9).

The discriminatory power of the items is represented by the range between the thresholds.

The third method used of discriminatory analysis to retain items which could distinguish between men with BPH and men without BPH.

We used a modified three-item version of the CAGE which omits the "cut-down" question because a wish to reduce alcohol consumption, possibly due to health concerns, is common in those aged 50 years and over and reduces this item's discriminatory value.