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Validation of Subjective Well-Being Measures Using Item Response Theory [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Background: Subjective well-being refers to the extent to which a person believes or feels that her life is going well. It is considered as one of the best available proxies for a broader, more canonical form of well-being.
Ali Al Nima +9 more
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An Insight to Estimated Item Response Matrix in Item Response Theory
IEEE Access, 2023 This paper investigates the performance of item response theory based on distance criteria rather than likelihood criteria. For this purpose, the estimated item response matrix is introduced.
Hideo Hirose
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International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2022 The current study investigates the optimum number of response categories for the Likert type of scales under the item response theory (IRT). The data was collected from university students attend to mainly the faculty of medicine and the faculty of ...
Cetin Toraman, Eren Can Aybek
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Allostatic load scoring using item response theory
Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2021 Allostatic load is commonly operationalized using a sum-score of high-risk biomarkers. However, this method implies that biomarkers contribute equally to allostatic load, as each is given equal weight. Our goal in this methodological paper is to evaluate
Shelley H. Liu +3 more
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Validating the Existential Quest Scale using item response theory [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThe Existential Quest Scale (EQS) is a brief instrument designed to assess individuals’ willingness to engage with existential quest in both religious and secular contexts.
Marco Rizzo +4 more
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, 2011 Several user-contributed packages can fit IRT models. The packages we use the most is the ltm package by Dimitris Rizopoulos and the MCMCpack packages by Andrew Martin, Kevin Quinn, and Jong Hee Park. The eRm package by Patrick Mair, Reinhold Hatzinger, and Marco Maier also has powerful features. But our experience with eRm is limited at this time.
Yuelin Li, Jonathan Baron
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ETS Research Report Series, 2013 ABSTRACTFew would doubt that ETS researchers have contributed more to the general topic of item response theory (IRT) than individuals from any other institution. In this report, we briefly review most of those contributions, dividing them into sections by decades of publication, beginning with early work by Fred Lord and Bert Green in the 1950s and ...
James E. Carlson, Matthias von Davier
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Comparing Test Sets with Item Response Theory [PDF]
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021 Recent years have seen numerous NLP datasets introduced to evaluate the performance of fine-tuned models on natural language understanding tasks. Recent results from large pretrained models, though, show that many of these datasets are largely saturated ...
Clara Vania +8 more
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Item response theory approach to ethnocentrism
Frontiers in Political Science, 2023 IntroductionAlthough ethnocentrism is one of the fundamental concepts in the social sciences, its study has been impeded by a diversity of conceptualizations and measures.
Conal Monaghan, Boris Bizumic
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Item Response Theory—A Statistical Framework for Educational and Psychological Measurement [PDF]
Statistical Science, 2021 Item response theory (IRT) has become one of the most popular statistical models for psychometrics, a field of study concerned with the theory and techniques of psychological measurement.
Yunxiao Chen +3 more
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