NEPSscaling: plausible value estimation for competence tests administered in the German National Educational Panel Study

Large-scale Assessments in Education

Research

Eva Zink¹  Anna Scharl¹ 

[1] Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, Wilhelmsplatz 3, 96047, Bamberg, Germany;

关键词: National Educational Panel Study;    Plausible values;    Competence;    scaling;    Large-scale assessment;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s40536-022-00145-5

 received in 2022-02-17, accepted in 2022-12-03,  发布年份 2022

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

Educational large-scale assessments (LSAs) often provide plausible values for the administered competence tests to facilitate the estimation of population effects. This requires the specification of a background model that is appropriate for the specific research question. Because the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) is an ongoing longitudinal LSA, the range of potential research questions and, thus, the number of potential background variables for the plausible value estimation grow with each new assessment wave. To facilitate the estimation of plausible values for data users of the NEPS, the R package NEPSscaling allows their estimation following the scaling standards in the NEPS without requiring in-depth psychometric expertise in item response theory. The package requires the user to prepare the data for the background model only. Then, the appropriate item response model including the linking approach adopted for the NEPS is selected automatically, while a nested multiple imputation scheme based on the chained equation approach handles missing values in the background data. For novice users, a graphical interface is provided that only requires minimal knowledge of the R language. Thus, NEPSscaling can be used to estimate cross-sectional and longitudinally linked plausible values for all major competence assessments in the NEPS.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© The Author(s) 2022

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