Item response theory (IRT) has its origins in pioneering work by Louis Thurstone in the 1920s, a handful of authors such as Lawley, Mosier, and Richardson in the 1940s, and more …
The rise of computer‐based testing has brought with it the capability to measure more aspects of a test event than simply the answers selected or constructed by the test taker. One …
C Wang, G Xu - British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In real testing, examinees may manifest different types of test‐taking behaviours. In this paper we focus on two types that appear to be among the more frequently occurring …
AS Cohen, DM Bolt - Journal of Educational Measurement, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Once a differential item functioning (DIF) item has been identified, little is known about the examinees for whom the item functions differentially. This is because DIF focuses on …
S Sen, AS Cohen - Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Mixture item response theory (MixIRT) models combine IRT models with latent class model and assume that there exist latent subpopulations in the data. Identification of latent …
F Li, AS Cohen, SH Kim, SJ Cho - Applied Psychological …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examines model selection indices for use with dichotomous mixture item response theory (IRT) models. Five indices are considered: Akaike's information coefficient …
YH Lee, Y Jia - Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2014 - Springer
Background Large-scale survey assessments have been used for decades to monitor what students know and can do. Such assessments aim at providing group-level scores for …
G Gorgun, O Bulut - Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2023 - Springer
In low-stakes assessment settings, students' performance is not only influenced by students' ability level but also their test-taking engagement. In computerized adaptive tests (CATs) …
S Sinharay - Journal of Educational Measurement, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Even though Bayesian estimation has recently become quite popular in item response theory (IRT), there is a lack of works on model checking from a Bayesian perspective. This …