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Kalkan, Ömür Kaya – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2022
The four-parameter logistic (4PL) Item Response Theory (IRT) model has recently been reconsidered in the literature due to the advances in the statistical modeling software and the recent developments in the estimation of the 4PL IRT model parameters. The current simulation study evaluated the performance of expectation-maximization (EM),…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Sample Size, Test Length, Algorithms
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Karadavut, Tugba; Cohen, Allan S.; Kim, Seock-Ho – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2020
Mixture Rasch (MixRasch) models conventionally assume normal distributions for latent ability. Previous research has shown that the assumption of normality is often unmet in educational and psychological measurement. When normality is assumed, asymmetry in the actual latent ability distribution has been shown to result in extraction of spurious…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Ability, Statistical Distributions, Sample Size