scholarly journals A Practical Procedure for the Construction and Reliability Analysis of Fixed-Length Tests with Randomly Drawn Test Items

2015 ◽  
pp. 47-60
Author(s):  
Silvester Draaijer ◽  
Sharon Klinkenberg
Keyword(s):  
Reliability Analysis ◽  
Test Items ◽  
Practical Procedure ◽  
Fixed Length

A New AID for Interpolating and Assessing Collision Strengths and Rate Coefficients

1988 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 107-110
Author(s):  
A. Burgess ◽  
H.E. Mason ◽  
J.A. Tully
Keyword(s):  
Significant Loss ◽  
Impact Excitation ◽  
Rate Coefficients ◽  
Electron Impact Excitation ◽  
Graphical Display ◽  
Practical Procedure ◽  
Positive Ions ◽  
Allowed Transition ◽  
Computational Errors ◽  
Existing Data

AbstractA new way of critically assessing and compacting data for electron impact excitation of positive ions is proposed. This method allows one (i) to detect possible printing and computational errors in the published tables, (ii) to interpolate and extrapolate the existing data as a function of energy or temperature, and (iii) to simplify considerably the storage and transfer of data without significant loss of information. Theoretical or experimental collision strengths Ω(E) are scaled and then plotted as functions of the colliding electron energy, the entire range of which is conveniently mapped onto the interval (0,1). For a given transition the scaled Ω can be accurately represented - usually to within a fraction of a percent - by a 5 point least squares spline. Further details are given in (2). Similar techniques enable thermally averaged collision strengths upsilon (T) to be obtained at arbitrary temperatures in the interval 0 < T < ∞. Application of the method is possible by means of an interactive program with graphical display (2). To illustrate this practical procedure we use the program to treat Ω for the optically allowed transition 2s → 2p in ArXVI.

The Reliability of Retrieval-Induced Forgetting

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosalind Potts ◽  
Robin Law ◽  
John F. Golding ◽  
David Groome
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Recognition Test ◽  
Laboratory Tests ◽  
The Other ◽  
Clinical Factors ◽  
Test Items ◽  
T1 And T2 ◽  
Test Materials ◽  
Induced Forgetting

Retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF) refers to the finding that the retrieval of an item from memory impairs the retrieval of related items. The extent to which this impairment is found in laboratory tests varies between individuals, and recent studies have reported an association between individual differences in the strength of the RIF effect and other cognitive and clinical factors. The present study investigated the reliability of these individual differences in the RIF effect. A RIF task was administered to the same individuals on two occasions (sessions T1 and T2), one week apart. For Experiments 1 and 2 the final retrieval test at each session made use of a category-cue procedure, whereas Experiment 3 employed category-plus-letter cues, and Experiment 4 used a recognition test. In Experiment 2 the same test items that were studied, practiced, and tested at T1 were also studied, practiced, and tested at T2, but for the remaining three experiments two different item sets were used at T1 and T2. A significant RIF effect was found in all four experiments. A significant correlation was found between RIF scores at T1 and T2 in Experiment 2, but for the other three experiments the correlations between RIF scores at T1 and T2 failed to reach significance. This study therefore failed to find clear evidence for reliable individual differences in RIF performance, except where the same test materials were used for both test sessions. These findings have important implications for studies involving individual differences in RIF performance.

Writing Test Items Scientifically

1982 ◽  
Vol 27 (12) ◽  
pp. 966-967
Author(s):  
Jason Millman
Keyword(s):  
Test Items ◽  
Writing Test

Human reliability analysis for control room upgrades

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Laurids Boring ◽  
Johanna Oxstrand ◽  
Michael Hildebrandt
Keyword(s):  
Reliability Analysis ◽  
Control Room ◽  
Human Reliability ◽  
Human Reliability Analysis

A Fixed Field/Fixed Length Automated Case Record Using an IBM 1232 Optically Readable Document

1968 ◽  
Vol 07 (03) ◽  
pp. 156-158
Author(s):  
Th. R. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Data ◽  
Case Record ◽  
Fixed Field ◽  
Fixed Length

The technique, scope and limitations of a fixed field/fixed length case record utilising the IBM 1232 system is described. The principal problems lie with personnel rather than machinery and with programmes for analysis rather than clinical data.

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