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How Well Are Your Instrument Items Hel** You to Discriminate and Communicate?
In this chapter, we introduce readers to several Rasch techniques that provide added techniques by which analysts can evaluate the degree to which...
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Some Concluding Thoughts…
The final chapter of this Advances in Rasch Analysis in the Human Sciences includes a summary of the concepts we have presented. We also provide an...
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The Importance of Cross Plots for Your Rasch Analysis
This chapter presents and discusses the wide range of “cross plots” that have been presented in published Rasch articles. In this chapter we discuss...
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Point Measure Correlation
Many Rasch analysis programs include a point measure correlation computation. In this chapter, we focus on how this correlation can be used to...
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Using Graphical Loglinear Rasch Models to Investigate the Construct Validity of the Perceived Stress Scale
The Rasch model has been generalized and extended into what is now known as the class of Rasch models. In this chapter, we will explain in...
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Applying the Rasch Rating Scale Method to Questionnaire Data
This chapter provides an introduction to the Rasch rating scale model (RSM) and provides a primer of how to use the methodology when analyzing...
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Examining an Economics Test to Inform University Student Learning Using the Rasch Model
This paper describes a quantitative analysis from an educational measurement approach to evaluating a multiple-choice test used in an introductory...
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Rasch Basics for the Novice
At times it can be overwhelming for the beginner to learn how to confidently interpret Rasch results. This chapter presents (1) the basics of Rasch...
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Constructs Evaluation of Student Attitudes Toward Science—A Rasch Analysis
The research on students’ attitudes toward science (SAS) is well-documented in the science education literature. Many studies examine SAS through the...
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Validation of a Science Concept Inventory by Rasch Analysis
The purpose of this study was to describe the Rasch analysis of a newly developed 22-item science concept instrument, which was administered to grade...
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A Rasch Analysis Approach to the Development and Validation of a Social Presence Measure
Social presence theory was developed by Short et al. (The social psychology of telecommunications. Wiley, London, 1976) to explain the impact of...
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Using Rasch Theory to Develop a Test and a Survey
This chapter presents a potential set of steps an analyst might follow to develop a survey or test using Rasch theory. The steps could be used to...
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The Hills…with the Partial Credit Model
In Rasch Analysis in the Human Sciences we discussed at length the use of what we named “The Hills” (Chap. 9 How...
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Partial Credit Part 1
Often tests includes partial credit items. The computation of “measures” for a partial credit test is harder to understand for those learning Rasch...
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Test Information Function (TIF)
A technique that can be used in a Rasch analysis to evaluate how a test is functioning is use of the Test Information Function (TIF). In this...
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Introduction: For the Second Time
Rasch techniques are of immense value because Rasch techniques allow researchers to develop and use high quality tests, surveys, and other...
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Presentation and Explanation Techniques to Use in Rasch Articles
In this chapter we consider the wide range of presentation techniques for tables and figures used in Rasch articles. For example an item entry table...
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Principal Component Analysis of Residuals (PCAR)
An added technique that can be used to investigate the dimensionality of a test or survey (e.g., do all items define the same trait?) is Principal...
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Analysing Log File Data from PIAAC
The OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) was the first computer-based large-scale assessment to provide...
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Plausible Values: Principles of Item Response Theory and Multiple Imputations
This chapter introduces the principles of item response theory (IRT) and the latent regression model, also called population or conditioning model,...