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Ackerman, Terry A. – 1987
One of the important underlying assumptions of all item response theory (IRT) models is that of local independence. This assumption requires that the response to an item on a test not be influenced by the response to any other items. This assumption is often taken for granted, with little or no scrutiny of the response process required to answer…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Correlation, Estimation (Mathematics), Latent Trait Theory