Sentence examples for solving items from inspiring English sources

Overall, 49 literacy items, 49 numeracy items and 14 problem solving items were administered in the assessment.

This concerned several numeracy items (Module 1: 28.57%, Module 2: 24.49%), a few literacy items (Module 1: 4.17%, Module 2: 2.04%) and no problem solving items.

In contrast to the domain-specific items in math and science, problem solving items did not require the use of prior knowledge in math and science (OECD [2004]).

Moreover, one may argue that math and problem solving items allow students to employ different solution strategies, whereas science items offer fewer degrees of freedom for test takers (Nentwig et al. [2009]).

Thus, random equivalent groups completed the literacy items and numeracy items in the first or the second part of the cognitive assessment, respectively, while there was only one order for the two sets of problem solving items.

On the one hand, this finding could be due to the design of the PISA tests (Adams [2005]), since math and problem solving items are designed in such a way that modelling real-life problems is required, whereas science items are mostly domain-specific and linked to science knowledge (Nentwig et al. [2009]; OECD [2004]).

A specific person's probability P ni of solving item i (right side of Eq. 1) is dependent upon the person's ability B n and the item's difficulty D i (left side of Eq.1).

For a dichotomous item in the Rasch model, the item information is P i  × (1 − P i ), where P i is the probability of correctly solving item i. Accordingly, the maximum value of each item information curve in the dichotomous Rasch model is 0.25 at P i  = .50.50

The game is an investigation adventure, sophisticated for its time, in which the player must resolve a murder mystery by searching for clues, exploring different areas, interacting with characters, and solving item-based puzzles.

Hence, in the following, we solve items 3 5 in Algorithm 1 using fixed-point search routines.

Thus, younger students could be expected to solve items differently than older students, who might be further ahead in terms of their general cognitive development.