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Sinharay, Sandip – Educational Testing Service, 2010
Recently, there has been an increasing level of interest in subscores for their potential diagnostic value. Haberman (2008) suggested a method based on classical test theory to determine whether subscores have added value over total scores. This paper provides a literature review and reports when subscores were found to have added value for…
Descriptors: Scores, Correlation, Reliability, Item Response Theory
Rijmen, Frank – Educational Testing Service, 2009
Three multidimensional item response theory (IRT) models for testlet-based tests are described. In the bifactor model (Gibbons & Hedeker, 1992), each item measures a general dimension in addition to a testlet-specific dimension. The testlet model (Bradlow, Wainer, & Wang, 1999) is a bifactor model in which the loadings on the specific dimensions…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Models, Graphs, Comparative Analysis