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Reading Comprehension Tests for Children: Test Equating and Specific Age-Interval Reports
Equating is used to directly compare alternate forms of tests. We describe the equating of two alternative forms of a reading comprehension test for Brazilian children (2nd to 5th grade), Form A (n = 427) and Form B (n = 321). We employed non-equivalent random groups design with internal anchor item...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8460877/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34566750 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.662192 |
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author | Lúcio, Patrícia Silva Lourenço, Fausto Coutinho Cogo-Moreira, Hugo Bandalos, Deborah de Carvalho, Carolina Alves Ferreira Kida, Adriana de Souza Batista de Ávila, Clara Regina Brandão |
author_facet | Lúcio, Patrícia Silva Lourenço, Fausto Coutinho Cogo-Moreira, Hugo Bandalos, Deborah de Carvalho, Carolina Alves Ferreira Kida, Adriana de Souza Batista de Ávila, Clara Regina Brandão |
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description | Equating is used to directly compare alternate forms of tests. We describe the equating of two alternative forms of a reading comprehension test for Brazilian children (2nd to 5th grade), Form A (n = 427) and Form B (n = 321). We employed non-equivalent random groups design with internal anchor items. Local independence was attested via standardized residual Pearson's bivariate correlation. First, from 176 items, we selected 42 in each form (33 unique and 9 in common) using 2PL model, a one-dimensional item response theory (IRT) model. Using the equateIRT package for R, the anchor items were used to link both forms. Linking coefficients were estimated under two different methods (Haebara and Stocking–Lord), resulting in scores equating by two methods: observed score equating (OSE) and true score equating (TSE). We provided reference-specific age-intervals for the sample. The final version was informative for a wide range of theta abilities. We concluded that the forms could be used interchangeably. |
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spelling | pubmed-84608772021-09-25 Reading Comprehension Tests for Children: Test Equating and Specific Age-Interval Reports Lúcio, Patrícia Silva Lourenço, Fausto Coutinho Cogo-Moreira, Hugo Bandalos, Deborah de Carvalho, Carolina Alves Ferreira Kida, Adriana de Souza Batista de Ávila, Clara Regina Brandão Front Psychol Psychology Equating is used to directly compare alternate forms of tests. We describe the equating of two alternative forms of a reading comprehension test for Brazilian children (2nd to 5th grade), Form A (n = 427) and Form B (n = 321). We employed non-equivalent random groups design with internal anchor items. Local independence was attested via standardized residual Pearson's bivariate correlation. First, from 176 items, we selected 42 in each form (33 unique and 9 in common) using 2PL model, a one-dimensional item response theory (IRT) model. Using the equateIRT package for R, the anchor items were used to link both forms. Linking coefficients were estimated under two different methods (Haebara and Stocking–Lord), resulting in scores equating by two methods: observed score equating (OSE) and true score equating (TSE). We provided reference-specific age-intervals for the sample. The final version was informative for a wide range of theta abilities. We concluded that the forms could be used interchangeably. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-09-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8460877/ /pubmed/34566750 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.662192 Text en Copyright © 2021 Lúcio, Lourenço, Cogo-Moreira, Bandalos, Carvalho, Kida and Ávila. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Lúcio, Patrícia Silva Lourenço, Fausto Coutinho Cogo-Moreira, Hugo Bandalos, Deborah de Carvalho, Carolina Alves Ferreira Kida, Adriana de Souza Batista de Ávila, Clara Regina Brandão Reading Comprehension Tests for Children: Test Equating and Specific Age-Interval Reports |
title | Reading Comprehension Tests for Children: Test Equating and Specific Age-Interval Reports |
title_full | Reading Comprehension Tests for Children: Test Equating and Specific Age-Interval Reports |
title_fullStr | Reading Comprehension Tests for Children: Test Equating and Specific Age-Interval Reports |
title_full_unstemmed | Reading Comprehension Tests for Children: Test Equating and Specific Age-Interval Reports |
title_short | Reading Comprehension Tests for Children: Test Equating and Specific Age-Interval Reports |
title_sort | reading comprehension tests for children: test equating and specific age-interval reports |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8460877/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34566750 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.662192 |
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