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Peer reviewedSmith, Jeffrey K. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1980
Weber contends that the use of Rasch analysis, principal components analysis, and classical test analysis shows that an instrument designed to measure a "bilevel dimensionality" in probability achievement measures a single latent trait. That interpretation and the use of Rasch and classical analysis to establish unidimensionality are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bayesian Statistics, Cognitive Processes, Item Analysis
