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Direct linkLuecht, Richard; Ackerman, Terry A. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2018
Simulation studies are extremely common in the item response theory (IRT) research literature. This article presents a didactic discussion of "truth" and "error" in IRT-based simulation studies. We ultimately recommend that future research focus less on the simple recovery of parameters from a convenient generating IRT model,…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Simulation, Ethics, Error of Measurement
