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Generalized IRT Models for Extreme Response Style
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Jin, Kuan-Yu; Wang, Wen-Chung – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2014
Extreme response style (ERS) is a systematic tendency for a person to endorse extreme options (e.g., strongly disagree, strongly agree) on Likert-type or rating-scale items. In this study, we develop a new class of item response theory (IRT) models to account for ERS so that the target latent trait is free from the response style and the tendency…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Research Methodology, Bayesian Statistics, Response Style (Tests)