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Andrich, David – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2011
This commentary examines the role of the unit from the perspective of the definition of measurement in physics as the ratio of two magnitudes, one of which is defined as the unit; it is an important and timely contribution to measurement in the social sciences. There are many different points that could be commented upon, but the author will…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Physics, Psychometrics, Item Response Theory
Salzberger, Thomas – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2011
Compared to traditional test theory, where person measures are typically referenced to the distribution of a population, item response theory allows for a much more meaningful interpretation of measures as they can be directly compared to item locations. However, Stephen Humphry shows that the crucial role of the unit of measurement has been…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Item Response Theory, Measurement, Sociometric Techniques
Heene, Moritz – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2011
Humphry (this issue) deserves credit for drawing attention to the long-neglected fact that differences in item discrimination parameters are often due to empirical factors and not the product of random error components. In doing so, Humphry offers a psychometrically elegant, coherent, and practically important new model that is more flexible while…
Descriptors: Measurement, Item Response Theory, Data, Psychometrics
Engelhard, George, Jr.; Perkins, Aminah F. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2011
Humphry (this issue) has written a thought-provoking piece on the interpretation of item discrimination parameters as scale units in item response theory. One of the key features of his work is the description of an item response theory (IRT) model that he calls the logistic measurement function that combines aspects of two traditions in IRT that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Sciences, Item Response Theory, Testing
Kyngdon, Andrew – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2011
Behavioral scientists have struggled with units of measurement for as long as they have struggled with measurement itself. Psychology's sole attempt at an explicit unit of measurement--the Lexile Framework for Reading (Stenner, Burdick, Sanford, & Burdick, 2006)--has been and continues to be ignored by the psychometric "cognoscenti."…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Psychometrics, Behavioral Sciences, Scientists
Humphry, Stephen M. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2011
The purpose of this article is to examine the role of the unit in physics in order to clarify the role of the unit in psychometrics. Based on this examination, metrological conventions are used to formulate the relationship between discrimination and the unit of a scale in item response theory. Seminal literature in two lines of item response…
Descriptors: Simulation, Social Sciences, Physics, Measures (Individuals)
Humphry, Stephen M. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2011
This article presents Stephen Humphry's response to the commentaries for his article "The Role of the Unit in Physics and Psychometrics." The commentaries covered a range of important considerations and implications. Given that the author fully agrees with the majority of the content, attention will be confined mainly to points that call…
Descriptors: Physics, Criticism, Misconceptions, Calculus
von Davier, Matthias – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2009
In this commentary, the author points out few issues, one being that there are models mislabeled as diagnostic, which deal with linear decompositions of item difficulties rather than estimating multidimensional skill variables. The author discusses the issue that there are many new names for essentially well-known models for multiple simultaneous…
Descriptors: Test Items, Probability, Models, Diagnostic Tests
Hancock, Gregory R. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2009
As Rupp and Templin (2008) stated directly, diagnostic classification methods "are confirmatory in nature." Methods, though, are neither inherently confirmatory nor exploratory. Diagnostic classification modeling, with its analytical and computational obstacles eventually yielding as a comprehensive and potent discipline emerges, will…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Test Items, Models, Diagnostic Tests
Have Cognitive Diagnostic Models Delivered Their Goods? Some Substantial and Methodological Concerns
Wilhelm, Oliver; Robitzsch, Alexander – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2009
The paper by Rupp and Templin (2008) is an excellent work on the characteristics and features of cognitive diagnostic models (CDM). In this article, the authors comment on some substantial and methodological aspects of this focus paper. They organize their comments by going through issues associated with the terms "cognitive,"…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Test Items, Models, Diagnostic Tests
Jiao, Hong – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2009
Diagnostic assessment is currently an active research area in educational measurement. Literature related to diagnostic modeling has been in existence for several decades, but a great deal of research has been conducted within the last decade or so, especially within the last five years. The author summarizes the key components in the application…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Literature Reviews, Test Items, Probability
Tatsuoka, Curtis – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2009
In this commentary, the author addresses what is referred to as the deterministic input, noisy "and" gate (DINA) model. The author mentions concerns with how this model has been formulated and presented. In particular, the author points out that there is a lack of recognition of the confounding of profiles that generally arises and then discusses…
Descriptors: Test Items, Classification, Psychometrics, Item Response Theory
Maris, Gunter; Bechger, Timo – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2009
Rupp and Templin (2008) do a good job at describing the ever expanding landscape of Diagnostic Classification Models (DCM). In many ways, their review article clearly points to some of the questions that need to be answered before DCMs can become part of the psychometric practitioners toolkit. Apart from the issues mentioned in this article that…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Classification, Psychometrics, Item Response Theory
Sinharay, Sandip; Haberman, Shelby J. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2009
In this commentary, the authors discuss some of the issues regarding the use of diagnostic classification models that practitioners should keep in mind. In the authors experience, these issues are not as well known as they should be. The authors then provide recommendations on diagnostic scoring.
Descriptors: Scoring, Reliability, Validity, Classification
Frey, Andreas; Carstensen, Claus H. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2009
On a general level, the objective of diagnostic classifications models (DCMs) lies in a classification of individuals regarding multiple latent skills. In this article, the authors show that this objective can be achieved by multidimensional adaptive testing (MAT) as well. The authors discuss whether or not the restricted applicability of DCMs can…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Test Items, Classification, Psychometrics