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Tendeiro, Jorge N.; Meijer, Rob R. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2014
In recent guidelines for fair educational testing it is advised to check the validity of individual test scores through the use of person-fit statistics. For practitioners it is unclear on the basis of the existing literature which statistic to use. An overview of relatively simple existing nonparametric approaches to identify atypical response…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Test Validity, Scores, Statistical Analysis
Nandakumar, Ratna; Yu, Feng – 1994
DIMTEST is a statistical test procedure for assessing essential unidimensionality of binary test item responses. The test statistic T used for testing the null hypothesis of essential unidimensionality is a nonparametric statistic. That is, there is no particular parametric distribution assumed for the underlying ability distribution or for the…
Descriptors: Ability, Content Validity, Correlation, Nonparametric Statistics