Psychosocial Stress and Change in Weight Among US Adults (2009)
Block, Jason P., He, Yulei, Zaslavsky, Alan M., Ding, Lin, Ayanian, John Z.
The association of psychosocial stress with weight gain may have important implications for clinical practice and workplace and public health interventions. To determine whether multiple domains of...
Approaches to data analysis of multiple-choice questions (2009)
This paper introduces five commonly used approaches to analyzing multiple-choice test data. They are classical test theory, factor analysis, cluster analysis, item response theory, and model...
Tale of two curricula: The performance of 2000 students in introductory electromagnetism (2009)
Matthew A. Kohlmyer, Marcos D. Caballero, Richard Catrambone, Ruth W. Chabay, Lin Ding, Mark P. Haugan, ...
The performance of over 2000 students in introductory calculus-based electromagnetism (E&M) courses at four large research universities was measured using the Brief Electricity and Magnetism...
PSM: A new Re-ranking algorithm for Named-page (2008)
Jiafeng Guo, Lin Ding, Gang Zhang, Yue Liu, Xueqi Cheng
This year, the IR group of ICT participated in the terabyte track named-page Finding subtask for the first time. Since the document collection is as large as about 426G, our most important goal is to...
Bao, Lei, Fang, Kai, Cai, Tianfang, Wang, Jing, Yang, Lijia, Cui, Lili, ...
Student content knowledge and general reasoning abilities are two important areas in education practice and research. However, there hasn't been much work in physics education that clearly documents...
Effects of testing conditions on conceptual survey results (2008)
Lin Ding, Neville W. Reay, Albert Lee, Lei Bao
Pre-testing and post-testing is a commonly used method in Physics Education Research to assess student learning gains. It is well recognized in the community that timings and incentives in delivering...
Designing an Energy Assessment to Evaluate Student Understanding of Energy Topics (2007)
The well-established approaches to energy in traditional introductory mechanics courses are often oversimplified or even erroneous. Unlike the traditional courses, Matter & Interactions (M&I) Modern...
Keywords: physics education, energy, introductory mechanics, introductory physics, evaluation, assessment.
Designing an energy assessment to evaluate student understanding of energy topics (2007)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--North Carolina State University.
Lin Ding, Ruth Chabay, Bruce Sherwood, Robert Beichner
The Brief Electricity and Magnetism Assessment (BEMA), developed by Chabay and Sherwood, was designed to assess student understanding of basic electricity and magnetism concepts covered in...
Cenozoic Volcanism in Tibet: Evidence for a Transition from Oceanic to Continental Subduction (2003)
DING, LIN, KAPP, PAUL, ZHONG, DALAI, DENG, WANMING
Geochronological (K–Ar or 40Ar/39Ar), major and trace element, Sr–Nd–Pb isotopic and mineral chemical data are presented for newly discovered Cenozoic volcanic rocks in the western...
Evaluation of structural modeling fit indices under misspecification conditions (1996)
A simulation study was conducted to evaluate the performance of eight fit indices, including Chi-square/df ratio ($\chi\sp2$/df), Root Mean Squared Residuals (RMSR), Normed Fit Index (NFI), Nonnormed...
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Correlations among measures of quality in HIV care in the United States: cross sectional study
Wilson, Ira B, Landon, Bruce E, Marsden, Peter V, Hirschhorn, Lisa R, McInnes, Keith, Ding, Lin, ...
Objective To determine whether a selected set of indicators can represent a single overall quality construct.