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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)This note serves as a reminder that incremental fit indices are a form of standardized effect sizes and hence, all reservations with respect to interpretations of standardized effect sizes also transfer to their interpretation. ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)To answer the calls for stronger evidence by the policy community, educational researchers and their associated organizations increasingly demand more studies that can yield causal inferences. International large scale ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)Literature on school leadership is relatively scarce in terms of measurement and international comparisons, but fairly straightforward in terms of the importance of school leadership for the improvement of student learning. ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)We provide a tutorial on differential item functioning (DIF) analysis, an analytic method useful for identifying potentially biased items in assessments. After explaining a number of methodological approaches, we test for ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine quality of life (QOL) and its relation to language skills in children with developmental language disorder (DLD). This was examined by comparing QOL to a control group ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)The item response theory (IRT) framework is commonly used for scoring and equating in high stakes tests to classify individuals into performance categories. However, IRT model misspecification such as assuming unidimensional ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)This study examined the level, structure and cognitive, educational and psychological determinants of beliefs about the relevance and nature of mathematics, about gender-stereotypes with respect to mathematics abilities ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)The study examines beginning teachers’ and pre-service teachers’ motivation to teach in China. Data are drawn from questionnaires completed by 107 beginning teachers (full-time teachers with fewer than six years’ working ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)This research was conducted to address the paucity of comparative studies on different methods for estimating standard errors with Laplace approximated maximum likelihood in multidimensional item response theory models. ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)When grade point averages (GPAs) are used for admission into tertiary education, there is an implicit assumption that the GPA of any two students relate to the same level of academic competency. However, this assumption ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)Mixed-worded survey scales are commonly used to ensure respondent attentiveness. Respondents need to switch response scales according to the wording direction (i.e., positive or negative wording) when answering an item. ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)In survey scale design, a mixed-worded format intends to ensure attentiveness as respondents need to take into account the wording direction when answering an item. However, some respondents tend to deliver inconsistent ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)This study aims to identify profiles of pre-service teachers in order to explore their readiness to integrate technology in education. The assumption is that pre-service teacher characteristics such as technological ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)Literature reviews have concluded that extensive time in early child care is associated with frequent externalizing behavior problems in children. In this article, we address three domains of validity in the work underlying ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)How teacher characteristics are related to student outcomes may indicate ways to improve the effectiveness of schooling. This paper examines how consistent such relations are by utilizing TIMSS data on five teacher ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)Objective The 12-item Partners in Health scale (PIH) was developed in Australia to measure self-management behaviour and knowledge in patients with chronic diseases, and has undergone several changes. Our aim was to assess ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)The present paper aims to discuss how data from international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) can be utilized and combined, even with other existing data sources, in order to monitor educational outcomes and study the ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)The goal of this study was to investigate sources of evidence of convergent validity supporting the construct interpretation of scores on a simulation-based information and communication technology (ICT) skills test. The ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)In 2015, the United Nations introduced the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, one of which was to ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to take action for sustainable development. Action ...