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Download full textMousavi, Amin; Cui, Ying – Education Sciences, 2020
Often, important decisions regarding accountability and placement of students in performance categories are made on the basis of test scores generated from tests, therefore, it is important to evaluate the validity of the inferences derived from test results. One of the threats to the validity of such inferences is aberrant responding. Several…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Educational Testing, Psychological Testing, Item Response Theory
Direct linkCui, Ying; Leighton, Jacqueline P. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2009
In this article, we introduce a person-fit statistic called the hierarchy consistency index (HCI) to help detect misfitting item response vectors for tests developed and analyzed based on a cognitive model. The HCI ranges from -1.0 to 1.0, with values close to -1.0 indicating that students respond unexpectedly or differently from the responses…
Descriptors: Test Length, Simulation, Correlation, Research Methodology
