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Raykov, Tenko; Marcoulides, George A. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2020
This note raises caution that a finding of a marked pseudo-guessing parameter for an item within a three-parameter item response model could be spurious in a population with substantial unobserved heterogeneity. A numerical example is presented wherein each of two classes the two-parameter logistic model is used to generate the data on a…
Descriptors: Guessing (Tests), Item Response Theory, Test Items, Models

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