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Effatpanah, Farshad; Baghaei, Purya – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2023
Item response theory (IRT) refers to a family of mathematical models which describe the relationship between latent continuous variables (attributes or characteristics) and their manifestations (dichotomous/polytomous observed outcomes or responses) with regard to a set of item characteristics. Researchers typically use parametric IRT (PIRT)…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Feedback (Response), Mathematical Models, Item Analysis
Green, Kathy E.; Kluever, Raymond C. – 1991
Item components that might contribute to the difficulty of items on the Raven Colored Progressive Matrices (CPM) and the Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM) were studied. Subjects providing responses to CPM items were 269 children aged 2 years 9 months to 11 years 8 months, most of whom were referred for testing as potentially gifted. A second…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Children, Comparative Testing, Difficulty Level