Characterizing Sources of Uncertainty in Item Response Theory Scale Scores

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 264-290

  Yang, Ji Seung ^a   Hansen, Mark ^a   Cai, Li ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

calibration; confidence envelope; IRT; IRT scoring; multiple imputation; standard error of measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859064749     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: 15523888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164411410056     Document Type: Review

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