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KernSmoothIRT: An R Package for Kernel Smoothing in Item Response Theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Item response theory (IRT) models are a class of statistical models used to describe the response behaviors of individuals to a set of items having a certain number of options.
Mazza, Angelo   +2 more
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Item Response Models in Psychometrika and Psychometric Textbooks

open access: yesFrontiers in Education, 2020
Item response theory modeling articles from 83 years of Psychometrika are sorted based on the taxonomy by Thissen and Steinberg (1986). Results from 377 research and review articles indicate that the usual unidimensional parametric item response theory ...
Seock-Ho Kim   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Information value of multiple response questions [PDF]

open access: yesPsihologija, 2012
Answers to Multiple Response (MR) questions carry more information than we usually utilize. Simple idea that all options of MR questions should be scored as independent test items has two major difficulties: 1) false options have item-response ...
Verbić Srđan
doaj   +1 more source

An Extension of Testlet-Based Equating to the Polytomous Testlet Response Theory Model

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Educational assessments tests are often constructed using testlets because of the flexibility to test various aspects of the cognitive activities and broad content sampling.
Feifei Huang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The General Motor Ability Hypothesis: An old idea revisited [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
While specific motor abilities have become a popular explanation for motor performance, the older, alternate notion of a general motor ability should be revisited.
Hands, Beth   +2 more
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Item Response Theory for Optimal Questionnaire Design

open access: yesJe-LKS: Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society, 2013
Student assessment is one of the most critical aspects related to web-based learning systems. In this field, the use of on-line questionnaires - based on multiple-choice items - is one of the most widespread approaches.
Giuseppina Lotito, Giuseppe Pirlo
doaj   +1 more source

Item Selection Methods for Computer Adaptive Testing With Passages

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
Computer adaptive testing (CAT) has been shown to shorten the test length and increase the precision of latent trait estimates. Oftentimes, test takers are asked to respond to several items that are related to the same passage.
Lihua Yao
doaj   +1 more source

Rheumatoid arthritis, item response theory, Blom transformation, and mixed models [PDF]

open access: gold, 2007
We studied rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in the North American Rheumatoid Arthritis Consortium (NARAC) data (1499 subjects; 757 families). Identical methods were applied for studying RA in the Genetic Analysis Workshop 15 (GAW15) simulated data (with a prior
Aldi T. Kraja   +7 more
openalex   +5 more sources

Assessing Personality Traits Through Response Latencies Using Item Response Theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Recent studies have revealed a relation between the given response and the response latency for personality questionnaire items in the form of an inverted-U effect, which has been interpreted in light of schema-driven behavior.
Ortner, Tuulia M., Ranger, Jochen
core   +1 more source

Calculating the random guess scores of multiple-response and matching test items [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
For achievement tests, the guess score is often used as a baseline for the lowest possible grade for score to grade transformations and setting the cut scores.
GA Brown   +12 more
core   +2 more sources

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