Sentence examples for science items from inspiring English sources

Ms. Pederson, a former teacher who has a doctorate in curriculum and instruction, oversees the social science items.

All students answered 36 manipulated science items that either contained (text-picture) or did not contain (text-only) an RP that visualized the text information in the item stem.

A detailed article on our test development methodologies and some of our findings, focused on development of the K 12 astronomy/space science items, but describing our overall process, can be found in the online journal, Astronomy Education Review.

Table 1 Factor structures of nature of science Items Factor loadings F1 F1 F1 10.

In addition, some of the math and science items involved cognitive operations that were specific to these domains.

Unlike mathematics items, science items may tend to be word problems that include technical language in the language of testing.

Science achievement was measured using the science item response theory (IRT) theta scores derived from a science assessment that was developed by the Educational Testing Service.

In the forensic science item, ScienceInsider editor Eli Kintisch chats with John Lentini, a nationally known fire investigator who conducted an outside review of the controversial case of Todd Willingham, a convicted arsonist who was executed in 2004.

For the purpose of this study, clinical relevance is defined as the practical applicability of the basic science item to the hospital setting.

Using the Latent Gold software (Vermunt & Magidson, 2005, 2008), we estimated the category intercepts for each item (a total of 41 science attitudes items) by fitting separate models to the individual attitudinal subscales.

"This essay has veered dangerously close to unseemly self-congratulation," he acknowledges, about a piece whose main point seems to be why he was right not to be surprised about three science news items.