A recent review of the literature concluded that Rasch measurement is an influential
approach in psychometric modeling. Despite the major contributions of Rasch measurement …

Recent research has integrated developmental and dimensional perspectives on epistemic
beliefs by implementing an approach in which profiles of learners' epistemic beliefs are …

Short versions of the Beck Hopelessness Scale have all been created according the
Classical Test Theory, but the use and the application of this theory has been repeatedly …

In educational large-scale assessment studies such as PISA, item response theory (IRT)
models are used to summarize students' performance on cognitive test items across …

The control-of-variables strategy (CVS) is considered a hallmark in the development of
scientific reasoning. It holds that informative experiments need to be contrastive and …

Scientific reasoning helps children understand the world around them. Teaching scientific
reasoning can be challenging because not all component scientific reasoning skills develop …

Control of variables strategy (CVS) is a core scientific reasoning skill related to domain-
general experimentation for evaluating an experimental system and deducing valid …

The idea of replication is based on the premise that there are empirical regularities or
universal laws to be replicated and verified, and the scientific method is adequate for doing …

Primary education in many countries enables children to learn the scientific reasoning skills
of hypothesizing, experimenting, interpreting data and drawing conclusions. Research has …

Abstract Background Existing dermatology-specific Patient-Reported Outcome Measures
(PROMs) do not fully capture the substantial physical, psychological and social impact of …