MODELING NONIGNORABLE MISSING DATA WITH ITEM RESPONSE THEORY (IRT)

ETS Research Report Series

Volumn 2010, Issue 1, 2010, Pages i-53

  Rose, Norman ^a   von Davier, Matthias ^b   Xu, Xueli ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

IRT; large scale assessments; latent regression model; missing data; multidimensional item response theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 85165577156     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23308516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2333-8504.2010.tb02218.x     Document Type: Article

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