Sentence examples for reducing items from inspiring English sources

A new method is also proposed to speed up the rule induction algorithm via reducing items that may be included in extracted rules.

Ramos & Stern ([1973]) compared 4- and 5-option tests of reading in Spanish and French as foreign languages, finding a small but significant reduction in reliability in reducing items from five to four options as well as a small decrease in discrimination.

After reducing items to create factors which appeared to have reasonable fit across all the subpopulations, the iterative process of invariance testing revealed systematic differences in how the different subpopulations rated themselves on the measurement scales.

A review of numerous studies concluded that reducing items from four options to three options decreases item difficulty (.04), increases item discrimination (.03), and also increases reliability (.02) [ 29].

The effect of guessing on multiple-choice tests scores is often overestimated and our analysis is consistent with other research which found that on a 100-item test, reducing items from four or five to three-options resulted in a test-score increase of only 1.22 points [ 11].

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Reducing item or serving sizes, and then pricing them accordingly, is another effective tactic.

Last week, retail analysts had predicted that there would be fewer promotional markdowns, fewer signs shouting of reduced items.

A few weeks ago I made the mistake of leaving my trolley full of reduced items at the end of an aisle.

As to the best times to go looking for reduced items, I find afternoons tend to be better than mornings during the week.

3. Describe and reduce items with the observation of 116 brain-injured patients in the intensive care unit during common painful procedures.