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Jiao, Hong; Kamata, Akihito; Wang, Shudong; Jin, Ying – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2012
The applications of item response theory (IRT) models assume local item independence and that examinees are independent of each other. When a representative sample for psychometric analysis is selected using a cluster sampling method in a testlet-based assessment, both local item dependence and local person dependence are likely to be induced.…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Test Items, Markov Processes, Monte Carlo Methods
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de la Torre, Jimmy; Stark, Stephen; Chernyshenko, Oleksandr S. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 2006
The authors present a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) parameter estimation procedure for the generalized graded unfolding model (GGUM) and compare it to the marginal maximum likelihood (MML) approach implemented in the GGUM2000 computer program, using simulated and real personality data. In the simulation study, test length, number of response…
Descriptors: Computation, Monte Carlo Methods, Markov Processes, Item Response Theory
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Stricker, Lawrence J.; Rock, Donald A.; Lee, Yong-Won – ETS Research Report Series, 2005
This study assessed the factor structure of the LanguEdge™ test and the invariance of its factors across language groups. Confirmatory factor analyses of individual tasks and subsets of items in the four sections of the test, Listening, Reading, Speaking, and Writing, was carried out for Arabic-, Chinese-, and Spanish-speaking test takers. Two…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Language Tests, Factor Analysis, Semitic Languages