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Jiao, Hong; Kamata, Akihito; Wang, Shudong; Jin, Ying – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2012
The applications of item response theory (IRT) models assume local item independence and that examinees are independent of each other. When a representative sample for psychometric analysis is selected using a cluster sampling method in a testlet-based assessment, both local item dependence and local person dependence are likely to be induced.…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Test Items, Markov Processes, Monte Carlo Methods
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Spray, Judith A.; Welch, Catherine J. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1990
The effect of large, within-examinee item difficulty variability on estimates of the proportion of consistent classification of examinees into mastery categories was studied over 2 test administrations for 100 simulated examinees. The proportion of consistent classifications was adequately estimated using the technique proposed by M. Subkoviak…
Descriptors: Classification, Difficulty Level, Estimation (Mathematics), Item Response Theory