Multidimensional Item Response Theory

• Main Author: Reckase, M.D. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Series: Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Subjects: Statistics.; Computer simulation.; Social sciences > Methodology.; Psychological tests and testing.; Psychometrics.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.; Simulation and Modeling.; Psychological Methods/Evaluation.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-89976-3

Multidimensional Item Response Theory is the first book to give thorough coverage to this emerging area of psychometrics. The book describes the commonly used multidimensional item response theory (MIRT) models and the important methods needed for their practical application. These methods include w...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Historical and intellectual underpinnings of multidimensional item response theory
• Basic background in item response theory
• Extension of item response theory to the multidimensional case
• Estimation of item and person parameters
• Linking of calibrations
• Multidimensional models for computerized adaptive tests
• Other applications of multidimensional item response theory
• Future directions for multidimensional item response theory.