Wright Maps: First Steps

Boone, William J.; Staver, John R.; Yale, Melissa S.

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-6857-4_6

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“…The Wright map organizes measures of person-perceived participant burden and item difficulties on the same linear scale (less to more) 8. In the Wright maps for this study, items that were more difficult to endorse, indicating greater burden, and persons with more perceived burden are at the top of the map, and easier-to-endorse items and persons with less perceived burden are at the bottom of the map.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Person separation examines whether a test can differentiate between participants with high and low scores. Item separation examines the accuracy of each item in order of difficulty 8. Separation statistics theoretically range from 0 to positive infinity, and a value of 2.0 or above is considered strong.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…8 MNSQ infit and outfit statistics between 0.5 and 1.7 have been deemed adequate. 8,12,14 Items with MNSQ values outside this range may be misfitting or over-fitting items, which may indicate redundancy. 15 The outfit statistic is more sensitive to outliers.…”

Section: Person and Item Fitmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Item separation examines the accuracy of each item in order of difficulty. 8 Separation statistics theoretically range from 0 to positive infinity, and a value of 2.0 or above is considered strong. WINSTEPS also reports Cronbach alpha as a measure of internal consistency.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Psychometric Evaluation of the Perceived Research Burden Assessment (PeRBA) in Longitudinal Studies of Alzheimer Disease Using Rasch Analysis

Keleman¹,

Chang

Bollinger³

et al. 2022

Alzheimer Disease &Amp; Associated Disorders

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Introduction: The Perceived Research Burden Assessment (PeRBA) was developed to measure participant perceptions of burden in research studies. This study aimed to examine the psychometric properties of this assessment using Rasch analysis in participants in the longitudinal studies of the Alzheimer disease (AD) and their family members. Methods: PeRBA was administered to 443 participants in studies of AD and 212 family members across 4 Alzheimer Disease Research Centers. We used Rasch analysis to examine PeRBA’s psychometric properties, and data-model fit both at item and scale levels. Results: PeRBA demonstrated good reliability and item and person fit for participants and family members. A few items did not fit the model for participants or family members. Areas of content redundancy were found in items assessing similar amounts of perceived research burden. Areas of content gaps were also found, with no items assessing certain levels of perceived research burden. Conclusion: Analysis results support the good overall psychometric properties of PeRBA among research participants in studies of AD and their family members. Recommendations have been provided to improve the assessment, including rewording items and adding items that could account for a broader range of perceived research burden.

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Psychometric Evaluation of the Perceived Research Burden Assessment (PeRBA) in Longitudinal Studies of Alzheimer Disease Using Rasch Analysis

Keleman¹,

Chang

Bollinger³

et al. 2022

Alzheimer Disease &Amp; Associated Disorders

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“…The Wright map consists of two vertical histograms which provide a visual representation of each child participant’s ability alongside the difficulty of each item on the same linear scale [ 23 , 28 ]. Less challenging items and children with lower ability (e.g.…”

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Activity competence among infants and toddlers with developmental disabilities: Rasch analysis of the Infant Toddler Activity Card Sort (ITACS)

Hoyt

L’Hotta

Bauer

et al. 2021

J Patient Rep Outcomes

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Background Development is rapid in the first years of life. Developmental delays appearing during this critical period have the potential to persist throughout the child’s life. Available standardized assessments for this age record a child’s ability to successfully complete discrete skills but fail to capture whether the child incorporates those skills into daily routines that are meaningful to the child and family. The Infant Toddler Activity Card Sort (ITACS) is a newly developed photograph-based early intervention tool to measure the participation-related concept of activity competence using caregiver report. The purpose of the present study was to use Rasch analysis to determine if ITACS items comprehensively measure the construct of child activity competence. Results A total of 60 child/caregiver dyads participated. The dichotomous caregiver-reported responses (present vs. absent) on the 40 individual ITACS items were used in Rasch analysis, and three iterations of the model were completed. The final model included 51 child/caregiver dyads and 67 ITACS assessments with a good spread of individual ability measure (6.47 logits). All items demonstrated adequate infit except for “sleeping” (range 0.68–1.54). Five items (sleeping, eating at restaurants, brushing teeth, crawling, and interact with pets) demonstrated high Mean Square (MNSQ) outfit statistics and one (take a bath) demonstrated low MNSQ outfit. ITACS items demonstrated a good spread of item difficulty measures (6.27 logits), and a clear ceiling was observed. Three activity items (smiling, breastfeeding, and playing with adults) were rarely endorsed as concerns. The activities most likely to be reported as challenging were “crying/communicating” and “going to school”. Person and item reliability statistics were adequate (0.79 and 0.80, respectively). The separation between individuals and between items were adequate to good (1.96 and 1.99, respectively). Conclusions Findings indicate that ITACS items are measuring a unidimensional construct--activity competence in early childhood. The Rasch analysis of caregiver responses suggest that some activities are more likely to be considered challenging and may be important targets for intervention. These results provide evidence to further validate the ITACS as a caregiver report measure and support its use in the early intervention setting to facilitate caregiver driven goal development.

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Assessing the quality of science teachers' lesson plans: Evaluation and application of a novel instrument

Großmann,

Krüger

2023

Science Education

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Lesson planning is a core part of teachers' professional competence. Written lesson plans play a significant role in science teacher education as a preparation for demonstration lessons during the final teacher certification exam. However, the few existing scoring rubrics on lesson plans are not particularly theoretically sound and are barely tested for the validity of score interpretations. In response to the demand for transparent and applicable criteria, we developed the rubric to assess science lesson plans (RALP) to assess science teachers' lesson plan quality. We employed a mixed‐methods approach: First, we present multiple sources of validity evidence (based on test content, internal structure, relations to other variables, and consequences of testing) as mainly quantitative indicators for the quality of the RALP. Based upon that, we applied the RALP to lesson plans written by preservice and trainee science teachers (N = 100) and provided a qualitative analysis of six cases to illustrate common patterns in these lesson plans. Results indicate that teacher educators consider the RALP criteria (N = 24) relevant and objectively applicable. Correlation analyses of the scores and two teacher educators' holistic quality assessment of all lesson plans provide convincing evidence that the RALP can discriminate lesson plan quality levels. Moreover, comparisons between preservice science teachers and trainee science teachers reveal that trainee teachers score significantly higher than preservice teachers, indicating that the RALP is sensitive to differences in teaching and planning experience. The application and in‐depth analysis of three criteria of the RALP illustrate these differences in levels of planning quality. We discuss possible applications of the RALP in science teacher education and research in science teaching.

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Wright Maps: First Steps

Cited by 4 publications

References 1 publication

Psychometric Evaluation of the Perceived Research Burden Assessment (PeRBA) in Longitudinal Studies of Alzheimer Disease Using Rasch Analysis

Psychometric Evaluation of the Perceived Research Burden Assessment (PeRBA) in Longitudinal Studies of Alzheimer Disease Using Rasch Analysis

Activity competence among infants and toddlers with developmental disabilities: Rasch analysis of the Infant Toddler Activity Card Sort (ITACS)

Assessing the quality of science teachers' lesson plans: Evaluation and application of a novel instrument

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