The predictive value of such questionnaires, however, is still not clear.
Such questionnaires -- or questions that lawyers have a judge ask potential jurors as occurred in the case of Mr. Quattrone -- are often tailored to the specifics of a trial.
On the other hand, rural schoolteachers, normally the persons who complete such questionnaires, can answer only a relatively small number of questions and often imperfectly.
In her letter, however, Ms. Slaughter raised questions about whether the lack of federal guidelines on the design of such questionnaires could put employees at risk for discriminatory practices.
One of the simplest models used to validate such questionnaires is the Rasch model (Rasch 1960).
Careful consideration is needed to optimally integrate the administration of such questionnaires in the tight schedule of large-scale assessments.
We suggest in this paper a method to develop such questionnaires for nonresponding schools in IEA studies.
We suggest that data from such questionnaires can help to evaluate bias risks in an effective way.
Recently, interest in the use of item response theory (IRT) to analyze the responses to such questionnaires has increased.
