The impact of local dependencies on various IRT outcomes
This research explores the effect of violations of the IRT local independence assumption. The assumption states that, conditional on ability, the responses of test takers to the items on a test are statistically independent. While this assumption is critical for the application of IRT to test data,...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
1995
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9524701 |