THREE MULTIDIMENSIONAL MODELS FOR TESTLET-BASED TESTS: FORMAL RELATIONS AND AN EMPIRICAL COMPARISON

ETS Research Report Series

Volumn 2009, Issue 2, 2009, Pages i-13

  Rijmen, Frank ^a  

^a EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

bifactor models; IRT; second order models; testlest models

Indexed keywords

EID: 85164622696     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23308516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2333-8504.2009.tb02194.x     Document Type: Article

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