Investigating an invariant item ordering for polytomously scored items

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 578-595

  Ligtvoet, Rudy ^a   van der Ark, L Andries ^a   te Marvelde, Janneke M ^a   Sijtsma, Klaas ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coefficient HT; Invariant item ordering; Item response function for polytomous items; Item step response function; Polytomous item response theory models

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954586677     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: 15523888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164409355697     Document Type: Article

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