Measuring Instructional Differentiation in a Large-Scale Experiment

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 263-279

  Williams, Ryan T ^a   Swanlund, Andrew ^b   Miller, Shazia ^b   Konstantopoulos, Spyros ^c   Eno, Jared ^b   van der Ploeg, Arie ^b   Meyers, Coby ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ecometrics; instructional differentiation; psychometrics; Rasch model; variance decomposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894337139     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: 15523888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164413507724     Document Type: Article

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