The use of item response theory (IRT) to investigate the hierarchical nature of a college mathematics curriculum.

A study examined the level to which an undergraduate math curriculum matched the item difficulty levels of representative mathematics problems based on that sequence. An item bank of 120 items was created for placement testing at undergraduate levels. Data were gathered from five instructors from...

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Publicado en:Educational & Psychological Measurement Vol. 57; pp. 450 - 459
Autores principales: Shermis, Mark D., Chang, Shu-hui
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Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. June 1997
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