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Abdel-fattah, Abdel-fattah A. – 1992
A scaling procedure is proposed, based on item response theory (IRT), to fit non-hierarchical test structure as well. The binary scores of a test of English were used for calculating the probabilities of answering each item correctly. The probability matrix was factor analyzed, and the difficulty intervals or estimates corresponding to the factors…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Difficulty Level, English, Estimation (Mathematics)
