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Sampling of Common Items: An Unrecognized Source of Error in Test Equating.
(Center for Research on Evaluation Standards and Student Testing CRESST, 2004)There is variability in the estimation of an equating transformation because common-item parameters are obtained from responses of samples of examinees. The most commonly used standard error of equating quantifies this ...
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Scene consistency and spatial presence increase the sensation of self-motion in virtual reality
(2005)
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Schools, parents, and youth violence: A multilevel, ecological analysis
(2006)Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), this study utilized an ecological approach to investigate the joint contribution of parents and schools on changes in violent behavior over ...
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Searching for the "Big Five" in a Greek context: The NEO-FFI under the microscope
(2004)The five-factor inventory (FFI) is a commonly used personality test based on the NEO-personality inventory revised. It has been translated into several languages and validated in a number of countries. Using a sample of ...
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Secondary transfer effects of intergroup contact: Alternative accounts and underlying processes
(2010)Although intergroup contact is one of the most prominent interventions to reduce prejudice, the generalization of contact effects is still a contentious issue. This research further examined the rarely studied secondary ...
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Selection of Common Items as an Unrecognized Source of Variability in Test Equating: A Bootstrap Approximation Assuming Random Sampling of Common Items
(2014)The standard error of equating quantifies the variability in the estimation of an equating function. Because common items for deriving equated scores are treated as fixed, the only source of variability typically considered ...
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Selection of macroreference frames in spatial memory
(2018)Spatial memories are often hierarchically organized with different regions of space represented in unique clusters within the hierarchy. Each cluster is thought to be organized around its own microreference frame selected ...
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Selective Attention and Consciousness: Investigating Their Relation Through Computational Modelling
(2011)The present study aimed at investigating the possible connection between conscious awareness and attention through the implementation of a neurocomputational model of visual selective attention. The development of the model ...
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Self Regulation, Cognitive Capacity and Risk Taking: Investigating Heterogeneity Among Adolescents with Callous-Unemotional Traits
(2018)The majority of prior work focuses on understanding the association between callous-unemotional (CU) traits and conduct problems, providing limited information on why some youth who score high on CU traits do not engage ...
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Self-consciousness and psychological distress: A study using the Greek SCS
(Elsevier Science, 2006)This study examined the psychometric properties and factor structure of the Greek Self-Consciousness Scale (SCS), and investigated the role of self-consciousness (SC), and personality in psychological distress. Factor ...
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Self-referential and social cognition in a case of autism and agenesis of the corpus callosum
(2012)Background: While models of autism spectrum conditions (ASC) are emerging at the genetic level of analysis, clear models at higher levels of analysis, such as neuroanatomy, are lacking. Here we examine agenesis of the ...
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Self-referential cognition and empathy in austism
(2007)Background. Individuals with autism spectrum conditions (ASC) have profound impairments in the interpersonal social domain, but it is unclear if individuals with ASC also have impairments in the intrapersonal self-referential ...
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Self-Reported Psychopathic Traits and Antisocial Outcomes in Detained Girls: A Prospective Study
(SAGE Publications Inc, 2017)This study examines the usefulness of self-reported psychopathy scores in predicting various antisocial outcomes in a sample of detained girls (n = 95, Mage = 16.25). Psychopathic traits at baseline were measured by the ...
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Selves on the Move
(2007)This review examines how we can use the theoretical and methodological tools of Gillespie's book to become better social scientists. We examine ways of approaching intergroup relations by applying the ideas of the book to ...
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Sensitivity of IRT Equating to the Behavior of Test Equating Items
(2003)The delta-plot method is used to identify which common items in a common item nonequivalent groups design for test equating show large changes in their p-values across administrations. Outliers in that plot denote differential ...
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Sensorimotor Alignment Effects in the Learning Environment and in Novel Environments
(2007)Four experiments investigated the conditions contributing to sensorimotor alignment effects (i.e., the advantage for spatial judgments from imagined perspectives aligned with the body). Through virtual reality technology, ...