Classical item analysis using latent variable modeling: A note on a direct evaluation procedure

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 315-324

  Raykov, Tenko ^a   Marcoulides, George A ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classical item analysis; Confidence interval; Inter item correlation; Item difficulty; Item total (adjusted) correlation; Latent variable modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957806890     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2011.557347     Document Type: Article

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