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Marcoulides, Katerina M. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2018
This study examined the use of Bayesian analysis methods for the estimation of item parameters in a two-parameter logistic item response theory model. Using simulated data under various design conditions with both informative and non-informative priors, the parameter recovery of Bayesian analysis methods were examined. Overall results showed that…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Item Response Theory, Probability, Difficulty Level
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Sinharay, Sandip – ETS Research Report Series, 2004
Assessing fit of psychometric models has always been an issue of enormous interest, but there exists no unanimously agreed upon item fit diagnostic for the models. Bayesian networks, frequently used in educational assessments (see, for example, Mislevy, Almond, Yan, & Steinberg, 2001) primarily for learning about students' knowledge and…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Networks, Models, Goodness of Fit