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Hasibe Yahsi Sari; Hulya Kelecioglu – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2025
The aim of the study is to examine the effect of polytomous item ratio on ability estimation in different conditions in multistage tests (MST) using mixed tests. The study is simulation-based research. In the PISA 2018 application, the ability parameters of the individuals and the item pool were created by using the item parameters estimated from…
Descriptors: Test Items, Test Format, Accuracy, Test Length
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Karadavut, Tugba; Cohen, Allan S.; Kim, Seock-Ho – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2020
Mixture Rasch (MixRasch) models conventionally assume normal distributions for latent ability. Previous research has shown that the assumption of normality is often unmet in educational and psychological measurement. When normality is assumed, asymmetry in the actual latent ability distribution has been shown to result in extraction of spurious…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Ability, Statistical Distributions, Sample Size