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Item A Retrospective Analysis and Curricular Mapping Assessment of Student Engagement in Research Design in Classes Offered by the College of Pharmacy at University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth(2016-12-01) Baskaran, Karthikeyan; Jerry W. Simecka; Patrick Clay; Victor V. UteshevThe purpose of this study is to perform a retrospective analysis and curricular assessment to identify classes at the University of North Texas System College of Pharmacy (UNTSCP), which provided student engagement in research design. The first stage of this quality assurance project involved the use of content analysis to review class syllabi and materials for the potential opportunity for student engagement in research design at UNTSCP. The second stage of this quality assurance project will involve the administration of online questionnaires to students and faculty of UNTSCP. The final stage of this quality assurance project will involve conducting face-to-face interviews with the faculty of UNTSCP. Upon completion of the first stage, we gained new insight into the student learning experience and found the opportunity for student engagement in research design to have been dispersed in a variety of core and elective classes at UNTSCP.Item A Tutorial on Cognitive Diagnosis Modeling for Characterizing Mental Health Symptom Profiles Using Existing Item Responses(Springer Nature, 2022-02-04) Tan, Zhengqi; de la Torre, Jimmy; Ma, Wenchao; Huh, David; Larimer, Mary E.; Mun, Eun-YoungIn research applications, mental health problems such as alcohol-related problems and depression are commonly assessed and evaluated using scale scores or latent trait scores derived from factor analysis or item response theory models. This tutorial paper demonstrates the use of cognitive diagnosis models (CDMs) as an alternative approach to characterizing mental health problems of young adults when item-level data are available. Existing measurement approaches focus on estimating the general severity of a given mental health problem at the scale level as a unidimensional construct without accounting for other symptoms of related mental health problems. The prevailing approaches may ignore clinically meaningful presentations of related symptoms at the item level. The current study illustrates CDMs using item-level data from college students (40 items from 719 respondents; 34.6% men, 83.9% White, and 16.3% first-year students). Specifically, we evaluated the constellation of four postulated domains (i.e., alcohol-related problems, anxiety, hostility, and depression) as a set of attribute profiles using CDMs. After accounting for the impact of each attribute (i.e., postulated domain) on the estimates of attribute profiles, the results demonstrated that when items or attributes have limited information, CDMs can utilize item-level information in the associated attributes to generate potentially meaningful estimates and profiles, compared to analyzing each attribute independently. We introduce a novel visual inspection aid, the lens plot, for quantifying this gain. CDMs may be a useful analytical tool to capture respondents' risk and resilience for prevention research.Item Beginning, Developing, Exemplary: Using a Targeted Grading Rubric to Assess the Information-Seeking Skills of First-Year Medical Students(2010-10-01) Savi, Christine; Bullion, JackItem Higher Order Thinking (HOT) Faculty Survey (V1)(2011-01-18) Collins, Vanneise; Alexander, Jerry; Savi, ChristineThe Higher Order Thinking (HOT) Faculty Survey instrument is designed to measure faculty use and knowledge of strategies, technologies and assessment techniques that can improve student HOT skills. This document is a copy of the original survey used in the 2010 deployment at UNTHSC.Item QEP Faculty Rubric: Demonstration(2011-01-13)QEP Faculty Rubric for demonstration higher order thinking skills.Item QEP Faculty Rubric: Identification(2011-03-27)QEP Faculty Rubric for identification of HOT strategies and techniques.Item Rubrics: Using Performance Criteria to Evaluate Student Learning(2011-05-23) Savi, ChristineThis PowerPoint introduces rubrics as a tool to assess student learning.