Anne Boomsma, Marijtje A.J. van Duijn, Tom A.B. Snijders, editors
xv, 438 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm
Lecture notes in statistics ;
157
Includes bibliographical references and index
1. The Life of Georg Rasch as a Mathematician and as a Statistician / Erling B. Andersen and Lina Wohlk Olsen -- 2. The Growing Family of Rasch Models / Jurgen Rost -- 3. Gain Scores Revisited Under an IRT Perspective / Gerhard H. Fischer -- 4. Modeling Learning in Short-Term Learning Tests / Karl Christoph Klauer and Hubert Sydow -- 5. An IRT Model for Multiple Raters / Norman D. Verhelst and Huub H. F. M. Verstralen -- 6. Conditional Independence and Differential Item Functioning in the Two-Parameter Logistic Model / Herbert Hoijtink -- 7. Differential Item Functioning Depending on General Covariates / Cees A. W. Glas -- 8. Statistical Tests for Differential Test Functioning in Rasch's Model for Speed Tests / Margo G. H. Jansen and Cees A. W. Glas -- 9. Expected Response Functions / Charles Lewis -- 10. A Logistic IRT Model for Decreasing and Increasing Item Characterisitc Curves / Edwin L. Klinkenberg -- 11. Using Parameter Expansion to Improve the Performance of the EM Algorithm for Multidimensional IRT Population-Survey Models / Donald B. Rubin and Neal Thomas -- 12. Cross-Validating Item Parameter Estimation in Adaptive Testing / Wim J. van der Linden and Cees A. W. Glas -- 13. Imputation of Missing Scale Data with Item Response Models / Mark Huisman and Ivo W. Molenaar -- 14. On the Interplay Between Nonparametric and Parametric IRT, with Some Thoughts About the Future / Brian Junker -- 15. Reversibility Revisited and Other Comparisons of Three Types of Polytomous IRT Models / Bas T. Hemker -- 16. Progress in NIRT Analysis of Polytomous Item Scores: Dilemmas and Practical Solutions / Klaas Sijtsma and L. Andries van der Ark -- 17. Two-Level Nonparametric Scaling for Dichotomous Data / Tom A. B. Snijders -- 18. The Circles of Our Minds: A Nonparametric IRT Model for the Circumplex / Robert J. Mokken, Wijbrandt H. van Schuur and Ard Jan Leeferink -- 19. Using Resampling Methods to Produce an Improved DIMTEST Procedure / William Stout, Amy Goodwin Froelich and Furong Gao -- 20. Person Fit Across Subgroups: An Achievement Testing Example / Rob R. Meijer and Edith M. L. A. van Krimpen-Stoop -- 21. Single-Peaked or Monotone Tracelines? On the Choice of an IRT Model for Scaling Data / Wendy J. Post, Marijtje A. J. van Duijn and Berna van Baarsen -- 22. Outline of a Faceted Theory of Item Response Data / Gideon J. Mellenbergh