A taxonomy of IRT models for ordering persons and items using simple sum scores

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 391-415

  Sijtsma, Klaas ^a   Hemker, Bas T ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Cito group   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dichotomous IRT models; Invariant item ordering; Item ordering; Item response theory; Person ordering; Polytomous IRT models; Stochastic ordering

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034553902     PISSN: 10769986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/10769986025004391     Document Type: Article

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