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Cuhadar, Ismail – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2022
In practice, some test items may display misfit at the upper-asymptote of item characteristic curve due to distraction, anxiety, or carelessness by the test takers (i.e., the slipping effect). The conventional item response theory (IRT) models do not take the slipping effect into consideration, which may violate the model fit assumption in IRT.…
Descriptors: Sample Size, Item Response Theory, Test Items, Mathematical Models