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<\/p>\nIt’s been a while since I’ve posted a picture of my wonderful, brilliant,\u00a0 encouraging supervisors, so here’s “Team Ellen” (as they say) at our last meeting before the summer.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42 They’re the best! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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I passed both of my courses this semester: Quantitative research methods<\/a> (statistics) and “Take control of your PhD-journey<\/a>” (from the library). I’ll also receive credits for the courses that I took at HINN<\/a>, so I’m well on my way toward completing my course credits. In this PhD-program, only 30 credits are from course work, while 150 are from the research and thesis, so I still have a lot of work to do!<\/p>\n Last week Torstein and I did some statistical analyses of the data we collected in the pilot study. Using the statistics program r<\/em>, data from the 268 respondents were analyzed in an exploratory manner for two\u00a0parameters in Item Response Theory<\/a> (IRT) \u2013 item difficulty and item discrimination. R generated these item characteristic curves for our 16 items.<\/p>\n By interpreting their slopes and placement, these curves tell us how difficult the survey questions are and how well they discriminate between students with much of the latent trait “information literacy,” and those with little of the trait. This enabled us to further reduce the number of survey questions from 16 to 10. We’re trying to accurately measure certain aspects of IL with as short a survey as possible.<\/p>\n But now it’s actually sunny and warm here in Troms\u00f8 (the warmest it’s been since I arrived in October), so I’ll continue with more on a cloudy day. And for the astronomically interested: the sun rose today at 1:03 AM<\/a> and won’t set until July 27th! Welcome MIDNIGHT SUN! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been a while since I’ve posted a picture of my wonderful, brilliant,\u00a0 encouraging supervisors, so here’s “Team Ellen” (as they say) at our last meeting before the summer.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42 They’re the best! \ud83d\ude42 I passed both of my courses this semester: Quantitative research methods (statistics) and “Take control of your PhD-journey” (from the library). … Continue reading IRT and midnight sun<\/span> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogg.uit.no\/eni081\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/158\/2019\/05\/IRT-item-characteristic-curves-pilot-300x232.jpeg\")
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