Knowledge of solution strategies and IRT modeling of items for transitive reasoning

Applied Psychological Measurement

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 55-68

  Sijtsma, Klaas ^a   Verweij, Anton C ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cognitive strategies; Componential IRT models; Generalized one parameter logistic model; Mokken model of monotone homogeneity; Partial credit model; Solution strategies; Transitive reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033249436     PISSN: 01466216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/01466219922031194     Document Type: Article

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