Adriano Ferreti Borgatto

TL;DR: It is shown that abilities in the scale region with little test information are more efficiently estimated using the maximum weighted likelihood estimation (WLE) method, particularly abilities belonging to the upper part of the scale.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors verified the reliability, discriminatory power and construct validity of the Kidscreen-27 questionnaire in Brazilian adolescents and reported that it achieved good levels of reproducibility, internal consistency and discriminatory power.

TL;DR: The results indicate that games provide a positive contribution to the students’ perceived learning, as well as provide an engaging experience, mainly in terms of challenge, social interaction, fun and focused attention.

TL;DR: In this paper, a food-based diet quality scale for Brazilian schoolchildren using item response theory (IRT) was developed and applied to a representative sample of schoolchildren from a Southern Brazilian city.

TL;DR: BL cement was superior to MC, and MR, FJ and KC were equivalent and inferior to BL and MC, in terms of flexural tensile strength.