Decomposition of a Rasch partial credit item into independent binary and indecomposable trinary items

Psychometrika

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 31-39

  Huynh, Huynh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary item; Elementary symmetric functions; Free response item; Graded response model; Indecomposable item; Open ended item; Partial credit model; Performance assessment; Rasch model; Trinary item

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040153504     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02296957     Document Type: Article

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