Areas where items were reported moderately well were: Item 7) Sample size, Item 10) Statistical Methods and Item 15) Harms.
Future research should examine problematic inhalant use as a continuous variable using both factor analytic methods and item response theory to better understand the nature of IUDs and how they should be measured.
Items denoted by demonstrated item misfit across more than one method and items denoted by demonstrated item misfit for one method.
Responses on the Round 2 surveys indicated consensus to retain 70 items related to topics to discuss, 25 items related to participant assessments, 29 items related to disclosure process methods and 8 items related to materials to utilize.
The techniques are known as differential item functioning (DIF) methods and biased items are said to exhibit DIF.
Using mixed-method and item response theory-based approaches, we developed generic item banks and targeted scales for adults and children with major neurological disorders.
Three different types of bias are distinguished, depending on whether the source of interpretation problems derives from the construct, method of the study, or specific items (called construct, method, and item bias or differential item functioning, respectively).
But item 18 (selecting English assessment method) and item 19 (helping develop the English assessment rules) loaded on diversity rather than student consultation.
Similarly, Nehm and Schonfeld (2008) and Nehm and Ha (2011) found that student explanations for evolutionary questions were context dependent in many cases; they particularly found that naïve idea measures were different depending on the measurement method and item features.
The scale-level content validity index, averaging calculation method and item-level content validity index of the attitude items was 0.96, indicating the high validity of the dimension [ 63].
