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• Understand-solve-check model of examinee problem solving - A general cognitive model of performance on figural response items, adapted from Lewis and Polson's theory of computer interface use and grounded in verbal protocols from one pilot subject.
• Unified taxonomy of subskills shared between and exclusive to reading and listening comprehension - The article prepares a taxonomy that, for the first time in its account, lists reading and listening subskills in a unified fashion, distinguishing shared from modality-exclusive subskills.
• Unifying linear and nonlinear factor analysis framework for evaluating CAT construct validity at item and parcel levels - The study's theoretical framework treats IRT models as a special case of nonlinear factor analysis within latent variable modeling, so that linear and nonlinear factor analyses can be applied in a "un
• Unitary language construct: vocabulary, grammar, and listening comprehension reflect a common language factor - The review's first theoretical perspective holds that linguistic comprehension develops with high interdependence across domains and modalities.
• Universal Grammar parameter-setting account of L2 adverb-position acquisition - The article adopts the generative view that Universal Grammar is available in second language acquisition, so that syntactic positions of adverbs are "universally determined and what people have to do
• Untestable-assumptions account for bias in nonexperimental estimation - The paper frames nonexperimental methods such as regression modeling and statistical matching as unbiased only under assumptions that "are usually not testable." This framing explains why bias in none
• Usage-based account of constructional development: from item-based learning to abstract constructions via language experience - Usage-based approaches explain language development as a gradual process of generalizing constructions through language experience.
• Usage-Based Second Language Acquisition - The usage-based account of second language learning: grammar develops gradually from experience of the language, as learners generalise from frequent, concrete item-based patterns to abstract form-mea
• UTAUT framework for technology acceptance - The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) explains individuals' acceptance of a technology through four determinants of an individual's aim of use.