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2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Zimmer ◽  
Clemens Draxler ◽  
Rudolf Debelak

The Wald, likelihood ratio, score and the recently proposed gradient statistics can be used to assess a broad range of hypotheses in item response theory models, for instance, to check the overall model fit or to detect differential item functioning. We introduce new methods for power analysis and sample size planning that can be applied when marginal maximum likelihood estimation is used. This avails the application to a variety of IRT models, which are increasingly used in practice, e.g., in large-scale educational assessments. An analytical method utilizes the asymptotic distributions of the statistics under alternative hypotheses. For a larger number of items, we also provide a sampling-based method, which is necessary due to an exponentially increasing computational load of the analytical approach. We performed extensive simulation studies in two practically relevant settings, i.e., testing a Rasch model against a 2PL model and testing for differential item functioning. The observed distributions of the test statistics and the power of the tests agreed well with the predictions by the proposed methods. We provide an openly accessible R package that implements the methods for user-supplied hypotheses.


2021 ◽  
pp. 014662162199076
Author(s):  
Shaoyang Guo ◽  
Tong Wu ◽  
Chanjin Zheng ◽  
Yanlei Chen

The calibration of the one-parameter logistic ability-based guessing (1PL-AG) model in item response theory (IRT) with a modest sample size remains a challenge for its implausible estimates and difficulty in obtaining standard errors of estimates. This article proposes an alternative Bayesian modal estimation (BME) method, the Bayesian Expectation-Maximization-Maximization (BEMM) method, which is developed by combining an augmented variable formulation of the 1PL-AG model and a mixture model conceptualization of the three-parameter logistic model (3PLM). By comparing with marginal maximum likelihood estimation (MMLE) and Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) in JAGS, the simulation shows that BEMM can produce stable and accurate estimates in the modest sample size. A real data example and the MATLAB codes of BEMM are also provided.


2020 ◽  
pp. 001316442094114
Author(s):  
Dimiter M. Dimitrov ◽  
Dimitar V. Atanasov

This study presents a latent (item response theory–like) framework of a recently developed classical approach to test scoring, equating, and item analysis, referred to as D-scoring method. Specifically, (a) person and item parameters are estimated under an item response function model on the D-scale (from 0 to 1) using marginal maximum-likelihood estimation and (b) analytic expressions are provided for item information function, test information function, and standard error of estimation for D-scores obtained under the proposed latent treatment of the D-scoring method. The results from a simulation study reveal very good recovery of item and person parameters via the marginal maximum-likelihood estimation method. Discussion and recommendations for practice are provided.


2019 ◽  
Vol 155 ◽  
pp. 384-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Mériaux ◽  
Xin Zhang ◽  
Mohammed Nabil El Korso ◽  
Marius Pesavento

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