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Sengul Avsar, Asiye; Tavsancil, Ezel – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2017
This study analysed polytomous items' psychometric properties according to nonparametric item response theory (NIRT) models. Thus, simulated datasets--three different test lengths (10, 20 and 30 items), three sample distributions (normal, right and left skewed) and three samples sizes (100, 250 and 500)--were generated by conducting 20…
Descriptors: Test Items, Psychometrics, Nonparametric Statistics, Item Response Theory
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Liang, Tie; Wells, Craig S.; Hambleton, Ronald K. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2014
As item response theory has been more widely applied, investigating the fit of a parametric model becomes an important part of the measurement process. There is a lack of promising solutions to the detection of model misfit in IRT. Douglas and Cohen introduced a general nonparametric approach, RISE (Root Integrated Squared Error), for detecting…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Measurement Techniques, Nonparametric Statistics, Models
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Straat, J. Hendrik; van der Ark, L. Andries; Sijtsma, Klaas – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2014
An automated item selection procedure in Mokken scale analysis partitions a set of items into one or more Mokken scales, if the data allow. Two algorithms are available that pursue the same goal of selecting Mokken scales of maximum length: Mokken's original automated item selection procedure (AISP) and a genetic algorithm (GA). Minimum…
Descriptors: Sampling, Test Items, Effect Size, Scaling
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Liang, Tie; Wells, Craig S. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2009
Investigating the fit of a parametric model is an important part of the measurement process when implementing item response theory (IRT), but research examining it is limited. A general nonparametric approach for detecting model misfit, introduced by J. Douglas and A. S. Cohen (2001), has exhibited promising results for the two-parameter logistic…
Descriptors: Sample Size, Nonparametric Statistics, Item Response Theory, Goodness of Fit