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Xiangyi Liao; Daniel M. Bolt; Jee-Seon Kim – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2024
Item difficulty and dimensionality often correlate, implying that unidimensional IRT approximations to multidimensional data (i.e., reference composites) can take a curvilinear form in the multidimensional space. Although this issue has been previously discussed in the context of vertical scaling applications, we illustrate how such a phenomenon…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Simulation, Multidimensional Scaling, Graphs
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Kim, Se-Kang – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2010
The aim of the study is to compare longitudinal patterns from Mathematics and Reading data from the direct child assessment of Early Child Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten (ECLS-K, US Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics 2006), utilizing Profile Analysis via Multidimensional Scaling (PAMS). PAMS has been used initially…
Descriptors: Multidimensional Scaling, Mathematics Achievement, Kindergarten, Reading Achievement