USER'S GUIDE FOR SCORIGHT (VERSION 3.0): A COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR SCORING TESTS BUILT OF TESTLETS INCLUDING A MODULE FOR COVARIATE ANALYSIS

ETS Research Report Series

Volumn 2004, Issue 2, 2004, Pages i-59

  Wang, Xiaohui ^a   Bradlow, Eric T ^b   Wainer, Howard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS   (United States)

Author keywords

bayesian; dichotomous; item response theory (IRT); markov chain monte carlo (MCMC); polytomous; testlets

Indexed keywords

EID: 85164452442     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23308516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2333-8504.2004.tb01976.x     Document Type: Article

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