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Kreitchmann, Rodrigo S.; Sorrel, Miguel A.; Abad, Francisco J. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2023
Multidimensional forced-choice (FC) questionnaires have been consistently found to reduce the effects of socially desirable responding and faking in noncognitive assessments. Although FC has been considered problematic for providing ipsative scores under the classical test theory, item response theory (IRT) models enable the estimation of…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Questionnaires, Social Desirability, Adaptive Testing
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Silva, R. M.; Guan, Y.; Swartz, T. B. – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2017
This paper attempts to bridge the gap between classical test theory and item response theory. It is demonstrated that the familiar and popular statistics used in classical test theory can be translated into a Bayesian framework where all of the advantages of the Bayesian paradigm can be realized. In particular, prior opinion can be introduced and…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Bayesian Statistics, Test Construction, Markov Processes