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Viola Merhof; Caroline M. Böhm; Thorsten Meiser – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2024
Item response tree (IRTree) models are a flexible framework to control self-reported trait measurements for response styles. To this end, IRTree models decompose the responses to rating items into sub-decisions, which are assumed to be made on the basis of either the trait being measured or a response style, whereby the effects of such person…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Test Interpretation, Test Reliability, Test Validity
Davison, Mark L.; Chang, Yu-Wen – 1992
A two-dimensional, compensatory item response model and a unidimensional model were fitted to the reading and mathematics items in the Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery-Revised for a sample of 1,000 adults aged 20-39 years. Multidimensional information theory predicts that if the unidimensional abilities can be represented as vectors in…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adults, Equations (Mathematics), Error of Measurement