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Sinharay, Sandip – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2015
Person-fit assessment may help the researcher to obtain additional information regarding the answering behavior of persons. Although several researchers examined person fit, there is a lack of research on person-fit assessment for mixed-format tests. In this article, the lz statistic and the ?2 statistic, both of which have been used for tests…
Descriptors: Test Format, Goodness of Fit, Item Response Theory, Bayesian Statistics
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Haberman, Shelby J.; Sinharay, Sandip – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2010
Most automated essay scoring programs use a linear regression model to predict an essay score from several essay features. This article applied a cumulative logit model instead of the linear regression model to automated essay scoring. Comparison of the performances of the linear regression model and the cumulative logit model was performed on a…
Descriptors: Scoring, Regression (Statistics), Essays, Computer Software