The Theory and Practice of Item Response Theory (Methodology in the Social Sciences) - Hardcover

Ayala, R.J. De

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1593858698 ISBN 13: 9781593858698

Verlag: Guilford Publications, 2008

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Item response theory (IRT) is a latent variable modeling approach used to minimize bias and optimize the measurement power of educational and psychological tests and other psychometric applications.

Designed for researchers, psychometric professionals, and advanced students, this book clearly presents both the "how-to" and the "why" of IRT. It describes simple and more complex IRT models and shows how they are applied with the help of widely available software packages. Chapters follow a consistent format and build sequentially, taking the reader from model development through the fit analysis and interpretation phases that one would perform in practice. The use of common empirical data sets across the chapters facilitates understanding of the various models and how they relate to one another.

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R. J. de Ayala is Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His research interests include psychometrics, item response theory, computerized adaptive testing, applied statistics, and multilevel models. His work has appeared in Applied Psychological Measurement, Applied Measurement in Education, the British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, Educational and Psychological Measurement, the Journal of Applied Measurement, and the Journal of Educational Measurement. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association&;s Division 5: Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics, as well as of the American Educational Research Association.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Guilford Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1593858698
• ISBN 13: 9781593858698
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 448
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