Rasch Fit Statistics as a Test of the Invariance of Item Parameter Estimates

Journal of Applied Measurement

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 153-163

  Smith, Richard M ^a,c   Suh, Kyunghee K ^b  

^a Data Recognition Corporation   (United States)

^b AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIT STATISTICS; MEAN SQUARE STATISTICS;

ABILITY TESTING; ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; CALIBRATION; DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; INVARIANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL TESTS; STUDENTS;

MEASUREMENT THEORY;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; EDUCATION; HUMAN; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

CALIBRATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037805705     PISSN: 15297713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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