A response-time-based latent response mixture model for identifying and modeling careless and insufficient effort responding in survey data

E Ulitzsch, S Pohl, L Khorramdel, U Kroehne… - Psychometrika, 2022 - Springer
Careless and insufficient effort responding (C/IER) can pose a major threat to data quality
and, as such, to validity of inferences drawn from questionnaire data. A rich body of methods …

A hierarchical latent response model for inferences about examinee engagement in terms of guessing and item‐level non‐response

E Ulitzsch, M von Davier, S Pohl - British Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In low‐stakes assessments, test performance has few or no consequences for examinees
themselves, so that examinees may not be fully engaged when answering the items. Instead …

Some thoughts on analytical choices in the scaling model for test scores in international large-scale assessment studies

A Robitzsch, O Lüdtke - Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences, 2022 - Springer
International large-scale assessments (LSAs), such as the Programme for International
Student Assessment (PISA), provide essential information about the distribution of student …

Scaling of competence tests in the National Educational Panel Study-Many questions, some answers, and further challenges

S Pohl, CH Carstensen - Journal for educational research online, 2013 - pedocs.de
Competence measurement in (longitudinal) large-scale assessments, such as in the
National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), imposes specific demands on the scaling of the …

[HTML][HTML] Development and validation of a test to assess teachers' knowledge of how to operate technology

T Fütterer, R Steinhauser, S Zitzmann… - … and Education Open, 2023 - Elsevier
To effectively adopt technology during teaching, teachers require knowledge of how to
operate technology. Especially first-time technology users need knowledge of how to handle …

Student, school, and country differences in sustained test-taking effort in the 2009 PISA reading assessment

D Debeer, J Buchholz, J Hartig… - Journal of educational …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, the change in examinee effort during an assessment, which we will refer to as
persistence, is modeled as an effect of item position. A multilevel extension is proposed to …

Incorporating test-taking engagement into the item selection algorithm in low-stakes computerized adaptive tests

G Gorgun, O Bulut - Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2023 - Springer
In low-stakes assessment settings, students' performance is not only influenced by students'
ability level but also their test-taking engagement. In computerized adaptive tests (CATs) …

[HTML][HTML] Process mediates structure: The relation between preschool teacher education and preschool teachers' knowledge.

S Blömeke, L Jenßen, M Grassmann… - Journal of …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
Data about processes and outcomes of preschool teacher education is scarce. This paper
examines the opportunities to learn (OTL) of prospective preschool teachers (N= 1,851) at …

Using response times for joint modeling of response and omission behavior

E Ulitzsch, M von Davier, S Pohl - Multivariate Behavioral …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
For adequate modeling of missing responses, a thorough understanding of the nonresponse
mechanisms is vital. As a large number of major testing programs are in the process or …

Modeling omitted and not-reached items in IRT models

N Rose, M von Davier, B Nagengast - Psychometrika, 2017 - Springer
Item nonresponse is a common problem in educational and psychological assessments.
The probability of unplanned missing responses due to omitted and not-reached items may …