Investigating Invariant Item Ordering in Personality and Clinical Scales: Some Empirical Findings and a Discussion

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 589-607

  Meijer, Rob R ^a   Egberink, Iris J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

invariant item ordering; nonparametric item response theory; test construction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863573700     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: 15523888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164411429344     Document Type: Article

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