A comparison study of IRT calibration methods for mixed-format tests in vertical scaling

The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate how using different IRT calibration methods may affect student achievement growth pattern recovery. In this study, 96 vertical scales (4 × 2 × 2 × 2 ×3) are constructed using different combinations of IRT calibration methods (separate, pair-wise con...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Meng, Huijuan
Other Authors: Vispoel, Walter P.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: University of Iowa 2007
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Online Access:https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/338
https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1523&context=etd