Johan Braeken
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 236599 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Johan Braeken |
| NOMBRES | Johan |
| APELLIDO | Braeken |
| FIRMA | BRAEKEN J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2119-3222 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Pearls and perils when interpreting item-specific results from international large-scale educational assessments
International large-scale assessments (ILSA) in education generate a lot of interest and debate among researchers and stakeholders alike. In this study, we take a deep-dive into a provocative claim that “Nordic students cannot do fractions” based on an item-specific result in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2011. Using item response data from five cycles of the TIMSS mathematics achievement test, spanning from 20…
Reducing Calibration Bias for Person Fit Assessment by Mixture Model Expansion
Measurement appropriateness concerns the question of whether the test or survey scale under consideration can provide a valid measure for a specific individual. An aberrant item response pattern would provide internal counterevidence against using the test/scale for this person, whereas a more typical item response pattern would imply a fit of the measure to the person. Traditional approaches, including the popular Lz person fit statistic, are ha…
Mapping student enrolment and admission eligibility for higher education in Ethiopia
Introduction UNICEF’s Education For All steers for equal opportunities for all students and diversity in the student population. In Ethiopia, affirmative action is the policy tool addressing equity in enrolment and admission to higher education, targeting underrepresented groups such as females and students from emerging regions. Methods In a cross-sectional study across two-levels of education, regional differences in enrolment and admission eli…
Investigating the Ordering Structure of Clustered Items Using Nonparametric Item Response Theory
Educational and psychological tests with an ordered item structure enable efficient test administration procedures and allow for intuitive score interpretation and monitoring. The effectiveness of the measurement instrument relies to a large extent on the validated strength of its ordering structure. We define three increasingly strict types of ordering for the ordering structure of a measurement instrument with clustered items: a weak and a stro…
The role of item format in the Pisa 2018 mathematics literacy assessment
When construct-irrelevant sources affect item difficulty, validity of the assessment is compromised. Using responses of 260000 students from 71 countries to the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2018 mathematics assessment and cross-classified mixed effects models, we examined three validity concerns associated with the construct-irrelevant factor, item format: whether the format influenced item difficulty, whether item format…
Do Flexible Administration Procedures Promote Individualized Clinical Assessments? An Explorative Analysis of How Clinicians Utilize the Funnel Structure of the SCID-5-AMPD Module I
The current study examined clinicians' utilization of the SCID-5-AMPD-I funnel structure. Across 237 interviews, conducted as part of the NorAMP study, we found that clinicians administered on average 2-3 adjacent levels under each subdomain, effectively administering only about 50% of available items. Comparing administration patterns of interviews, no two interviews contained the exact same set of administered items. On average, when comparing …
Caught off Base
This note serves as a reminder that incremental fit indices are a form of standardized effect sizes and hence, all reservations with respect to interpretations of standardized effect sizes also transfer to their interpretation. Such a realization has major implications for the interpretation and use of incremental fit indices, for the theoretical (im)possibility of default universal rules of thumb in their application, and for simulation studies …
The concurrent and longitudinal relationship between narrative skills and other language skills in children
We examined the concurrent relationship between narrative skills (the Renfrew Bus Story Test) and core language measures (vocabulary, grammar and verbal memory) at age 4 and the longitudinal relationship between core language and listening comprehension skills at age 7 in a sample of 215 children using latent variables and structural equation modelling. Our main purpose was to investigate to what extent narrative retell constitutes a unique influ…
A multi-center psychometric evaluation of the Severity Indices of Personality Problems 118 (Sipp-118)
Purpose The Severity Indices of Personality Problems 118 (SIPP-118) is a self-report questionnaire that aims to measure core components of (mal)adaptive personality functioning that can change over time. In this study, we aimed to assess the facet strength of the 16 facets across three large clinical samples. Methods Data from Norwegian and Dutch psychiatric patients were analyzed in this international multi-center study (N 1 = 2814, N 2 = 4751, …
An empirical Kaiser criterion.
In exploratory factor analysis (EFA), most popular methods for dimensionality assessment such as the screeplot, the Kaiser criterion, or-the current gold standard-parallel analysis, are based on eigenvalues of the correlation matrix. To further understanding and development of factor retention methods, results on population and sample eigenvalue distributions are introduced based on random matrix theory and Monte Carlo simulations. These results …
Regional inequalities and gender differences in academic achievement as a function of educational opportunities
This study investigated regional and gender differences in academic achievement in Ethiopia, and examined whether these differences can be explained in terms of unequal educational opportunities (EO). Educational opportunity was operationalized in a broad sense based on a regional differentiation in terms of socio-economic and school environment factors. The study results are based on a multilevel analysis of the 2014 and 2015 national standardiz…
Growth in Oral Reading Fluency in a Semitransparent Orthography
This study investigated an adaptation of the Oral Reading Fluency ( ORF ) measure of the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills into a European context for the Norwegian language, which has a more transparent orthography than English. Second‐order latent growth curve modeling was used to examine the longitudinal measurement invariance of the ORF measure, the growth in oral reading fluency within and across grades 2–5, the relative stab…
Comparing future teachers’ beliefs across countries
Using data from the international Teacher Education and Development Study: Learning to Teach Mathematics (TEDS-M), the measurement equivalence of teachers’ beliefs across countries is investigated for the case of ‘mathematics-as-a fixed-ability’. Measurement equivalence is a crucial topic in all international large-scale assessments and widely undervalued for non-achievement measures. Although it is well known that cultural differences may affect…
Managerial abuse and the process of absence among mental health staff
Managers' abuse of subordinates is a common form of unethical behaviour in workplaces. When exposed to such abuse, employees may go absent from work. We propose two possible explanations for employee absence in response to managerial abuse: a sociological explanation based on perceptions of organizational justice and a psychological explanation based on psychological strain. Both are tested using data from a sample of 1472 mental health workers. …
The Quality of Parent–Infant Interaction in the First 2 Years After Full-Term and Preterm Birth
Objective. Relatively few studies have examined stability and/or change in the quality of parenting behaviors across the first years of a preterm infant’s life and how this course may differ from parents of term infants. Design. The present study examined the quality and stability of mother–infant and father–infant interaction across the first 2 years post-partum in a sample of 231 Dutch families with either a term or a preterm infant. Video reco…
Evaluating quality of life and response shift from a couple-based perspective
Longitudinal Associations Between Maternal Disrupted Representations, Maternal Interactive Behavior and Infant Attachment
The construct validity and predictive validity of a self-efficacy measure for student teachers in competence-based education
Contextualized Personality Questionnaires
For structural equation models (SEMs) with categorical data, correlated measurement residuals are not easily implemented. The problem lies mainly in the absence of a categorical analogue to the multivariate normal distribution and the absence of closed form formulas in SEMs for categorical data. We present a novel technique to handle measurement residuals that keeps the attractive SEM mainframe intact yet adds flexibility in dependence modeling w…
Psychometric Properties of the Dutch Version of the Eating Disorder Inventory–3
The psychometric properties of the Dutch version of the Eating Disorder Inventory–3 (EDI-3) were tested in eating disordered patients ( N = 514) using confirmatory factor analyses, variance decomposition, reliabilities, and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analyses. Factorial validity results supported the 12 subscales, but model fit was impaired by correlated item errors, misallocated items, and redundant subscales. At the composite…
A relationship between verbal aggression and personal network size
Regional inequalities and gender differences in academic achievement as a function of educational opportunities
This study investigated regional and gender differences in academic achievement in Ethiopia, and examined whether these differences can be explained in terms of unequal educational opportunities (EO). Educational opportunity was operationalized in a broad sense based on a regional differentiation in terms of socio-economic and school environment factors. The study results are based on a multilevel analysis of the 2014 and 2015 national standardiz…
Growth in Oral Reading Fluency in a Semitransparent Orthography
This study investigated an adaptation of the Oral Reading Fluency ( ORF ) measure of the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills into a European context for the Norwegian language, which has a more transparent orthography than English. Second‐order latent growth curve modeling was used to examine the longitudinal measurement invariance of the ORF measure, the growth in oral reading fluency within and across grades 2–5, the relative stab…
A relationship between verbal aggression and personal network size
The construct validity and predictive validity of a self-efficacy measure for student teachers in competence-based education
Contextualized Personality Questionnaires
For structural equation models (SEMs) with categorical data, correlated measurement residuals are not easily implemented. The problem lies mainly in the absence of a categorical analogue to the multivariate normal distribution and the absence of closed form formulas in SEMs for categorical data. We present a novel technique to handle measurement residuals that keeps the attractive SEM mainframe intact yet adds flexibility in dependence modeling w…
Psychometric Properties of the Dutch Version of the Eating Disorder Inventory–3
The psychometric properties of the Dutch version of the Eating Disorder Inventory–3 (EDI-3) were tested in eating disordered patients ( N = 514) using confirmatory factor analyses, variance decomposition, reliabilities, and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analyses. Factorial validity results supported the 12 subscales, but model fit was impaired by correlated item errors, misallocated items, and redundant subscales. At the composite…
Evaluating quality of life and response shift from a couple-based perspective
Longitudinal Associations Between Maternal Disrupted Representations, Maternal Interactive Behavior and Infant Attachment
The Quality of Parent–Infant Interaction in the First 2 Years After Full-Term and Preterm Birth
Objective. Relatively few studies have examined stability and/or change in the quality of parenting behaviors across the first years of a preterm infant’s life and how this course may differ from parents of term infants. Design. The present study examined the quality and stability of mother–infant and father–infant interaction across the first 2 years post-partum in a sample of 231 Dutch families with either a term or a preterm infant. Video reco…
Comparing future teachers’ beliefs across countries
Using data from the international Teacher Education and Development Study: Learning to Teach Mathematics (TEDS-M), the measurement equivalence of teachers’ beliefs across countries is investigated for the case of ‘mathematics-as-a fixed-ability’. Measurement equivalence is a crucial topic in all international large-scale assessments and widely undervalued for non-achievement measures. Although it is well known that cultural differences may affect…
Managerial abuse and the process of absence among mental health staff
Managers' abuse of subordinates is a common form of unethical behaviour in workplaces. When exposed to such abuse, employees may go absent from work. We propose two possible explanations for employee absence in response to managerial abuse: a sociological explanation based on perceptions of organizational justice and a psychological explanation based on psychological strain. Both are tested using data from a sample of 1472 mental health workers. …
An empirical Kaiser criterion.
In exploratory factor analysis (EFA), most popular methods for dimensionality assessment such as the screeplot, the Kaiser criterion, or-the current gold standard-parallel analysis, are based on eigenvalues of the correlation matrix. To further understanding and development of factor retention methods, results on population and sample eigenvalue distributions are introduced based on random matrix theory and Monte Carlo simulations. These results …
Regional inequalities and gender differences in academic achievement as a function of educational opportunities
This study investigated regional and gender differences in academic achievement in Ethiopia, and examined whether these differences can be explained in terms of unequal educational opportunities (EO). Educational opportunity was operationalized in a broad sense based on a regional differentiation in terms of socio-economic and school environment factors. The study results are based on a multilevel analysis of the 2014 and 2015 national standardiz…
Growth in Oral Reading Fluency in a Semitransparent Orthography
This study investigated an adaptation of the Oral Reading Fluency ( ORF ) measure of the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills into a European context for the Norwegian language, which has a more transparent orthography than English. Second‐order latent growth curve modeling was used to examine the longitudinal measurement invariance of the ORF measure, the growth in oral reading fluency within and across grades 2–5, the relative stab…
A multi-center psychometric evaluation of the Severity Indices of Personality Problems 118 (Sipp-118)
Purpose The Severity Indices of Personality Problems 118 (SIPP-118) is a self-report questionnaire that aims to measure core components of (mal)adaptive personality functioning that can change over time. In this study, we aimed to assess the facet strength of the 16 facets across three large clinical samples. Methods Data from Norwegian and Dutch psychiatric patients were analyzed in this international multi-center study (N 1 = 2814, N 2 = 4751, …
The concurrent and longitudinal relationship between narrative skills and other language skills in children
We examined the concurrent relationship between narrative skills (the Renfrew Bus Story Test) and core language measures (vocabulary, grammar and verbal memory) at age 4 and the longitudinal relationship between core language and listening comprehension skills at age 7 in a sample of 215 children using latent variables and structural equation modelling. Our main purpose was to investigate to what extent narrative retell constitutes a unique influ…
Caught off Base
This note serves as a reminder that incremental fit indices are a form of standardized effect sizes and hence, all reservations with respect to interpretations of standardized effect sizes also transfer to their interpretation. Such a realization has major implications for the interpretation and use of incremental fit indices, for the theoretical (im)possibility of default universal rules of thumb in their application, and for simulation studies …
Do Flexible Administration Procedures Promote Individualized Clinical Assessments? An Explorative Analysis of How Clinicians Utilize the Funnel Structure of the SCID-5-AMPD Module I
The current study examined clinicians' utilization of the SCID-5-AMPD-I funnel structure. Across 237 interviews, conducted as part of the NorAMP study, we found that clinicians administered on average 2-3 adjacent levels under each subdomain, effectively administering only about 50% of available items. Comparing administration patterns of interviews, no two interviews contained the exact same set of administered items. On average, when comparing …
Mapping student enrolment and admission eligibility for higher education in Ethiopia
Introduction UNICEF’s Education For All steers for equal opportunities for all students and diversity in the student population. In Ethiopia, affirmative action is the policy tool addressing equity in enrolment and admission to higher education, targeting underrepresented groups such as females and students from emerging regions. Methods In a cross-sectional study across two-levels of education, regional differences in enrolment and admission eli…
Investigating the Ordering Structure of Clustered Items Using Nonparametric Item Response Theory
Educational and psychological tests with an ordered item structure enable efficient test administration procedures and allow for intuitive score interpretation and monitoring. The effectiveness of the measurement instrument relies to a large extent on the validated strength of its ordering structure. We define three increasingly strict types of ordering for the ordering structure of a measurement instrument with clustered items: a weak and a stro…
The role of item format in the Pisa 2018 mathematics literacy assessment
When construct-irrelevant sources affect item difficulty, validity of the assessment is compromised. Using responses of 260000 students from 71 countries to the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2018 mathematics assessment and cross-classified mixed effects models, we examined three validity concerns associated with the construct-irrelevant factor, item format: whether the format influenced item difficulty, whether item format…
Pearls and perils when interpreting item-specific results from international large-scale educational assessments
International large-scale assessments (ILSA) in education generate a lot of interest and debate among researchers and stakeholders alike. In this study, we take a deep-dive into a provocative claim that “Nordic students cannot do fractions” based on an item-specific result in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2011. Using item response data from five cycles of the TIMSS mathematics achievement test, spanning from 20…
Reducing Calibration Bias for Person Fit Assessment by Mixture Model Expansion
Measurement appropriateness concerns the question of whether the test or survey scale under consideration can provide a valid measure for a specific individual. An aberrant item response pattern would provide internal counterevidence against using the test/scale for this person, whereas a more typical item response pattern would imply a fit of the measure to the person. Traditional approaches, including the popular Lz person fit statistic, are ha…
Psychology (18 obras) · Statistics (9 obras) · Computer Science (8 obras) · Mathematics (8 obras) · Developmental psychology (7 obras) · Medicine (6 obras) · Psychometrics (6 obras) · Social Psychology (6 obras) · Econometrics (5 obras) · Mathematics education (5 obras)