Unidimensional item response theory (IRT) models are useful when each item is designed to measure some facet of a unified latent trait.In practical applications, items are not colts dog collar necessarily measuring the same underlying trait, and hence the more general multi-unidimensional model should be considered.This paper provides the requisite
Contributions of age of start, cognitive abilities and practice to musical task performance in childhood.
Studies with adult musicians show that beginning lessons before age seven is associated with better performance on musical tasks and enhancement in auditory and motor brain regions.It is hypothesized that early training interacts with periods of heightened neural development to promote greater plasticity and better learning and performance later in
QUASI-FIDEISM AND SCEPTICAL FIDEISM
Abstract My interest is in the relationship between the contemporary account of the epistemology of religious belief, known as quasi-fideism, and 6561416 the sceptical fideism that has been so important, historically, in motivating fideistic ideas.I argue that we can profitably construe quasi-fideism along sceptical fideist lines, in that it is m&m