Although, originally, educational measurement methods were built on classical test theory, item response theory and Rasch models are now used extensively in educational measurement worldwide.

Although originally from New Jersey, wax-wrapped salt water taffy is a popular item sold in tourist areas.

On the 4 × 4 grid originally proposed by Hein, the second player will always win with correct play ( HAKMEM item # 74 ).

eBay affiliate marketers were originally paid a percentage of the eBay seller's transaction fees, with commissions ranging from 50 % to 75 % of the fees paid for an item purchased.

The word infinitesimal comes from a 17th century Modern Latin coinage infinitesimus, which originally referred to the " infinite-th " item in a series.

One example is found in the phrase " the odd man out ", which originally came from the phrase " to find the odd man out ", where the verb " to find out " has been split by its object " the odd man ", meaning the item which does not fit.

One word of each pair is presented in a random order and the participant is asked to recall the item with which it was originally paired.

When he gave participants associative cues to items that they did not originally recall and that were thought to be lost to memory, the participants were able to recall the item.

The most important item in the National Museum in Sarajevo is the Sarajevo Haggadah, a Jewish illuminated codex originally from 12th century Spain.

Lineage's stat, monster, and item system was originally largely borrowed from NetHack with MMO elements added.

Tatami were originally a luxury item for the nobility.

It originally denoted an item of furniture for lying or sleeping on, somewhat like a chaise lounge, but now refers to sofas in general.

At the auction, as each item is sold, the host compares the auction sale price to the price originally paid by the team, with the difference being either subtracted from or added to the team's total.

The clawfoot tub or claw-foot tub was considered a luxury item in the late 19th century, originally made from cast iron and lined with porcelain.

In Canada, Australia ( where it originally appeared as a promotional menu item but, due to its popularity, became a full-time menu item ), and New Zealand, the McChicken comes on a sesame-seed bun with lettuce and " McChicken Sauce " and is lightly spiced, however.

At the time, it was not a best-seller, but after he died, it became a collector's item, since his publisher had originally let it go out of print and now many of his fans wanted copies of it.

The book originally sold for one dollar each, but soon attained the status of a collector's item.

It was originally most commonly used in describing the output of a hypothetical business ; in computer technology, it refers to any arbitrary item that may be made to appear on the screen.

Statisticians constructing matched-model price indices must decide how to compare the price of the obsolete item originally used in the index with the new and improved item that replaces it.

This approach was originally called " adaptive mastery testing " but it can be applied to non-adaptive item selection and classification situations of two or more cutscores ( the typical mastery test has a single cutscore ).

Trailed as ' The Experiment ', Teen Big Brother was originally shot in advance over the course of ten days during July and August 2008, to air in 2008 as an educational item, screened as part of Channel 4's 4Learning programming.

The ' blue label ' version of the game was originally a promotional item given to the three highest scoring players at a Cave hosted event.

The second item was PC with a sound card and a software program called Banpaia, and the third item was a phone that could easily be used for cloning, such as the Oki 900.

The Black Templars in Warhammer 40, 000 have an item called the Holy Orb of Antioch, which is a very powerful hand grenade carried by Black Templar commanders.

A single-use item, the hammer, can destroy stone statues, which frees a flying soldier called a Centurion that will aid the player in boss battles.

Another food item popular in Rhode Island and southern Massachusetts is called a " hot wiener " or " New York System wiener ," although, ironically, they are unknown in New York ( including Coney Island ).

In South Indian snack cuisine, there is an item called HappLa in Kannada / vadam in Tamil, which is a chip made of an extruded rice / sago or multigrain base that has been around for many centuries.

The dish is called nim begun and is the first item during a Bengali meal that acts as an appetizer.

In Vietnam, there is a popular food item called mắm, which is made the same way as fish sauce, except that both the fish and the liquid extract, not just the liquid, are kept, and mắm is fermented for a shorter period than fish sauce.

The Three Million Dollar Bill, as it was called, was the sole item of business in the House from February 8, 1847 until February 15.

* In Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, there is an obtainable item called the ' Adamant Orb ' which raises the dragon and steel type attacks of Dialga.

During his exile in the United States, Liang Qichao, a Guangdong ( Canton ) native, wrote in 1903 that there existed in the United States a food item called chop suey which was popularly served by Chinese restaurateurs, but which local Chinese people did not eat.

The resulting item set is called the closure of the item set we began with.

In Paper Mario, he is the primary antagonist, stealing an item called the Star Rod and using it to empower himself.

The other table could be called OrderItem ; it would be identified by a compound key consisting of both the order number ( foreign key ) and an item line number ; with other non-primary key attributes such as the product number ( foreign key ) that was ordered, the quantity, the price, any discount, any special options, and so on.

The brute-force method for finding an item in a table — namely, check all entries of the latter, sequentially — is called linear search.

The raw material for plates was called Sheffield plate, plating by fusion or cold-rolled cladding and was a standard hardware item produced by heating and rolling silver foil in contact with a copper support.

A key item in that plan is liquid fueled rocket propulsion component integration and testing, called Integrated Powerhead Demonstration or IPD.

* In Team Fortress 2 there is a miscellaneous item for the Demoman, called The Bird-Man of Aberdeen, based on Robert Stroud's nickname.

After the varnam and / or invocatory item, the artist sings longer compositions called kirtanas ( commonly referred to as kritis ).

In most concerts, the main item will at least have a section at the end of the item, for the percussion to perform solo ( called the tani avartanam ).

Also, the DC Comics supervillain known as the Fadeaway Man wields an item called the Cloak of Cagliostro, which allows him to teleport.

Teriyaki burgers are also a drive-in, restaurant and school cafeteria item in Hawaii ( where it is commonly called a " teri-burger ").