Bayesian Prior Choice in IRT Estimation Using MCMC and Variational Bayes (open access)

Bayesian Prior Choice in IRT Estimation Using MCMC and Variational Bayes

This study investigates the impact of three prior distributions: matched, standard vague, and hierarchical in Bayesian estimation parameter recovery in two and one parameter models.
Date: September 27, 2016
Creator: Natesan, Prathiba; Nandakumar, Ratna; Minka, Tom & Rubright, Jonathan D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Challenges in measuring ACGME competencies: considerations for milestones (open access)

Challenges in measuring ACGME competencies: considerations for milestones

This article extends previous studies of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)'s measure of residents' training progress to examine the validity of ACGME International competency measures for an international setting across emergency medicine (EM) and neurology, and across evaluators.
Date: September 28, 2018
Creator: Natesan, Prathiba; Batley, Nicholas J.; Bakhti, Rinad & El-Doueihi, Philippe Z.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Examining physical activity and quality of life in adults with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability (open access)

Examining physical activity and quality of life in adults with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability

Article discusses how quality of life and physical activity relate to each other in adults with autism and intellectual disabilities. The authors use Fitbit activity trackers to find connections between physical activity and quality of life of their sample group of autistic adults.
Date: September 13, 2021
Creator: Tomaszewski, Brianne; Savage, Melissa N. & Hume, Kara
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Project Communicate (open access)

Project Communicate

Data management plan for the grant, "Project Communicate." The purpose of Project Communicate is to professionally prepare 27 special education teachers and 10 speech-language pathologists, including scholars from ethnically and racially diverse backgrounds, to be highly-qualified to demonstrate skills in promoting high expectations to improve student outcomes, providing individualized evidence-based practices for students with autism spectrum disorder, and providing culturally and linguistically responsive instruction. Scholars will participate in a master’s degree program in Special Education (Autism Intervention) or Speech-Language Pathology designed to include coursework, integrated and embedded supervised field experiences, and other professional development opportunities for developing knowledge and skills for working with students with ASD in school-based settings.
Date: 2022-09-01/2027-08-31
Creator: Boesch, Miriam C.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reliability Generalization of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire: A Meta-Analytic View of Reliability Estimates (open access)

Reliability Generalization of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire: A Meta-Analytic View of Reliability Estimates

This article uses a reliability generalization meta-analysis to explore the relationship between study factors and levels of alpha reliability for the 15 subscales of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ).
Date: September 26, 2018
Creator: Holland, David F.; Kraha, Amanda; Zientek, Linda Reichwein; Nimon, Kim F.; Fulmore, Julia A.; Johnson, Ursula Y. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library