Sentence examples for the existing item from inspiring English sources

The existing item pool was composed of 8th grade mathematics items from the 2011 NAEP P&P operational assessment.

To be useful in patients with severe functional loss, the existing item bank may need to be enriched with newly calibrated items at the lower end of the scale, as indicated by the percentage of children scoring at the measurement floor on the custom short forms.

To address this, additional items at the lowest end of the scale may need to be developed [30] or "borrowed" from other scales, such as the Pediatric Neuro-QOL [31], and calibrated to this population to supplement the existing item bank.

With these goals in mind, 28 potential new items were developed and administered along with the existing item banks to test whether they could be added to existing item banks and enhance content and range of measurement.

For the purpose of our experiments, we randomly chose 50%% of the existing items and change their names from a certain session onwards, causing a sudden drift.

10%% of missing items were permitted (two items) with the missing values prorated using the mean of the existing item-ratings.

The potential new items were embedded among the existing items in the computerized administration.

In these cases, the mean values of the existing items of a scale were used to substitute the missing items.

After setting aside items judged to exhibit LD, IRT parameters for the potential new items were estimated using concurrent calibration with the existing items on each scale.

Content analysis the 36 additional barriers revealed 20 were already covered by the existing items, and 10 were proposed by one respondent only, thereby indicating good content validity.

A sequence of analyses using LD X statistics computed in the course of concurrent unidimensional calibration of the five new items with the existing 29-item Upper Extremity item pool, exploratory item factor analysis, and fitting increasingly refined bifactor models led to the conclusion that two of the new items were involved in an LD triplet with one of the existing items.