Application of multidimensional item response theory models to longitudinal data

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 5-34

  Te Marvelde, Janneke M ^a   Glas, Cees A W ^a   Van Landeghem, Georges ^b   Van Damme, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Generalized partial credit model; Item response theory; Longitudinal data; Marginal maximum likelihood estimation; Multidimensional IRT models; Panel data; Repeated measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 31944451231     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: 15523888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164405282490     Document Type: Article

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