6 Works
Rasch Measurement v. Item Response Theory: Knowing When to Cross the Line
Steven E. Stemler & Adam Naples
When students receive the same score on a test, does that mean they know the same amount about the topic? The answer to this question is more complex than it may first appear. This paper compares classical and modern test theories in terms of how they estimate student ability. Crucial distinctions between the aims of Rasch Measurement and IRT are highlighted. By modeling a second parameter (item discrimination) and allowing item characteristic curves to cross,...
Thomas von Aquin – Anstoß und Anstöße für das evangelische Gedächtnis
Volker Leppin
Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie, 143 (2021) 4, 584-601
Edward Kamau Brathwaite at Carifesta ‘72: The Occasion for Caribbean Criticism
René Johannes KooikerMany Lifetimes of Knowledge: The History of the Bibliothèque Haïtienne des Frères de l’Instruction Chrétienne’s Newspaper Collection and Its Digital Future
Claire Antone Payton, Anne Eller & Lewis Ampidu'Byzantium in Brno: joining an Eastern and Western Middle Ages’. Review of: Byzantium or democracy? Kondakov’s legacy in emigration: the Institutum Kondakovianum and Andre Grabar, 1925-1952 by Ivan Foletti and Adrien Palladino, Rome: Viella, Brno: Masaryk University Press, 2020, 211pp, 381 b. & w. illus. € 25.00 ISBN 9788833134963
Nelson Robert
Journal of Art Historiography, 24
Babel and Babble in Benjamin and Burke
Samuel McCormick & John Durham Peters
Drawing on the works of Walter Benjamin and Kenneth Burke, this essay argues that the philosophical conditions and conclusions of rhetoric and translation are the same: both trace their origins to the primal fall of language, whether after the Fall from Eden or the curse of Babel, and both find their horizons in an ultimate linguistic motive that, oddly enough, typifies ordinary language use.